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Naidu Says It Was Not A Paid Visit To Davos

Naidu Says It Was Not A Paid Visit To Davos

Ever since Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu left for Davos in Switzerland to attend the World Economic Summit meeting last week, the Opposition parties, particularly, the YSR Congress party has been alleging that the visit was a hoax and that Naidu had gone to Davos on a paid tour but not through invitation.

On Monday, his office tried to give an explanation brushing aside the allegation that it was a paid visit.

"The news in circulation in some quarters that the 'Chief Minister was not a special invitee to the World Economic Forum at Davos and that his name did not figure in the list of speakers' is patently false and amounts to false propaganda. To expose these lies and to set the record straight, we are pleased to provide to the press the WEF invitation letter and related documents," the CMO said.

The CMO released a letter sent by Philipp Rosler, who is a managing board member of the WEF, which 'invited' Naidu for the conference. It also released another photo which had Naidu's name mentioned in a list of speakers at a group discussion. Naidu's entire schedule through the week was also released to the media.

It may be mentioned that YSR Congress party alleged that Naidu was never invited by the WEF as being claimed but he paid a whopping $ 3.22 lakh as delegate fee from the government coffers to attend the conference.

Similarly, AP Congress Committee also alleged that there was no transparency involved in the Chief Minister’s WEF visits. He was simply taking people of the state for a grand ride in the name of attracting investments, former Speaker Nadendla Manohar said.

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