HOW ARE YOU?: Telugu Desam president, N. Chandrababu Naidu, greets a Secretariat employee on Thursday. Party leader Kala Venkat Rao is also seen.

HYDERABAD: Telugu Desam Party (TDP) president N. Chandrababu Naidu, stumped anxious onlookers on Thursday when he visited his old office in the Secretariat which he presided over for nine years as the Chief Minister. He returned to the Secretariat after 15 months, this time out of power. Mr. Naidu arrived at the entrance of the `C' block in a convoy of Ambassador cars, just as he used to do as Chief Minister, as a battery of photographers vied with each other to click him. He took the elevator to go to the fourth floor of the building to participate in a meeting with Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy to discuss the constitution of the State Human Rights Commission. The photographers and videographers tailed him when he came out of the lift. Naidu walked to the chambers of Dr. Reddy greeting every one on the way.

Asked if he had found anything new with the Chief Minister's chambers which he had occupied in the past, Mr. Naidu said he did not study it in detail. "But, the sofas are old," he remarked. He said there was no change in the walls. He took the lift back to reach his car where he posed for photographers for a while and shook hands with some people.

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