Chandrababu who was travelling to Tirupati in a bulletproof car, came out of the blast with minor injuries. He was CM for 9 years at the time for combined Andhra Pradesh.
The rest is history as Babu continued his winning streak.
Today, he is the CM of AP. The naxals used claymore mines for the blast when Babu was on his way to visit Lord Balaji at Tirumala.
The mastermind behind the attack was Nambala Keshava Rao alias Basavaraju alias Ganganna was killed in an encounter in Chattisgarh on Wednesday.
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Nambala who is from Srikakulam was an engineer from REC Warangal, now known as NIT. Immediately after passing out, he got into the naxal movement and started the guerilla warfare.
He played a crucial role in Dandakaranya forest and was the general secretary of the communist party of India (Maoist). It is known that the Central government is carrying out Operation Kagar to weed out naxals.
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Already, many naxals lost lives and today 26 naxals were shot dead as a part of the encounter in Narayanpur district, Chattisgarh. Nambala was one of them.
Apart from attack on Chandrababu, Nambala also played a key role in Balimela attack. After the division of the state, two Vizag TDP MLAs were killed by naxals. Nambala had a part to play in the incident.
Nambala also played a key role in changing the name of naxals as Maoists. There was a reward of Rs 1.5 crore on Nambala.