Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh IT Minister Nara Lokesh took a subtle dig at Karnataka IT-BT Minister Priyank Kharge on X, saying, “They say Andhra food is spicy — looks like some of our investments have also turned out to be too hot for them to handle,” adding a chilli emoji for effect.

The remark came amid an ongoing war of words between Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka over Google’s ₹1.3 lakh crore investment in Visakhapatnam, which is expected to generate around 30,000 jobs.

Recently, Priyank Kharge had criticized the Andhra government’s incentives to Google, calling them an “economic disaster.” He pointed out that Andhra Pradesh had offered ₹22,000 crore in incentives, 25% subsidy on land and water charges, free electricity, and a 100% state GST refund. “If Karnataka had done this, we woul

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