After offering prayers at the Tirumala temple, he told media persons that he would make every possible effort to create wealth and ensure its distribution among the poor.

“I want to see the Indian community on top in the world and 35 percent Telugu in the Indian community as number one. We must work for a zero-poverty nation, zero-poverty state and zero-poverty district.”

Naidu, who took oath as chief minister on Wednesday, said he prayed for the prosperity of the state and all Telugu people.

Underlining the need to eliminate economic inequalities, he said that this is possible only through government policies.He recalled the initiatives taken by him in this direction as Chief Minister of united Andhra Pradesh. “CBN 1.0 started in 1995. We took governance, which was limited to the secretariat, to the doorsteps of the people. Development took place and everyone has seen its results. World leaders came to Hyderabad. I didn't invite them. They came on their own.They come where good work is done.

Telugu Desam Party (TDP) described the family system as the biggest asset of the country. “Family recharges your energy, gives you security and happiness. India’s family system is a model for the entire world,” he said and mentioned that family proved to be his biggest support when he was in jail.

CM Naidu, who is set to take charge as the Chief Minister on Thursday evening, clarified that there will be no witchcraft but those who have done wrong will be punished as per law.

He remarked that God has also ordered to protect the good and punish the evil.

CM Naidu, who led NDA to a massive victory, called it a historic mandate.“We have never seen such a huge public opinion. A strike rate of 93 per cent has never happened in the history of the state or the country,” he claimed.

Recalling his fondness for the Tirumala temple from his early days, he said it was God's blessing that he became a chief minister in life and played an important role in national politics.

Referring to the failed assassination attempt by Maoists near the same temple in 2003, he said God had saved him from claymore mines. “No one survives.They saved me so that I could serve the state and the people,” he said.

The TDP supremo said he prays to Venkateswara Swamy every morning to seek blessings.

He alleged that the previous government tried to damage the sanctity of Tirumala and remarked that while other deities punish sinners after death, Venkateswara Swamy punishes them in this life.