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VIJAYAWADA: The Andhra Pradesh government withdraw its “General Consent” given to the central government's investigating agencies to enter the state and conduct searches on charges of corruption. Chandrababu Naidu had earlier accused the central government of misusing the CBI, IT, ED and other institutions against its political rivals and called for Save Democracy movement in the country. It is said that the state took this extreme step following chief minister Chandrababu Naidu’s complaints against the misuse of CBI and other central institutions by the central government. It is for this reason Naidu had met Congress president Rahul Gandhi. The state government withdrew its general consent given to the Central Bureau of Investigation CBI ) to investigate into the corruption charges against the officials of the central government and central government undertakings and private persons.The general consent is given to the CBI to investigate into the crime and conspiracies covering a total of 187 sections of the IPC and 63 various central government Acts.The state government, through a government order on November 8, withdrew this general consent preventing the CBI from take up any investigation or conduct a raid on anyone in the state till further orders.The state government had decided to use its Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) to conduct such searches or raids or investigations if required in the absence of the CBI..