Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu is giving an impression that he is adopting a belligerent posture against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party.
But, his rival YSR Congress party suspects that he is actually trying to appease Modi.
On Saturday, party leader B Rajendranath Reddy said Naidu was discretely making all out efforts to appease Modi despite pulling out from the coalition to save his skin.
“The farce of fasting on his birthday has shown that Naidu is more interested to pursue his career than getting the Special Category Status (SCS) to Andhra Pradesh.
Naidu has appealing to the people to stand with him in any eventuality shows that he puts his personal agenda ahead of people’s interests and the very purpose of his so called deeksha has not been categorically defined,” Reddy said.
He pointed out that appointing the wife of a BJP leader from Maharashtra to the TTD Board shows that the liaison with BJP was still on and his call to the people that they should stand with him shows that he has been preparing ground for any backlash.
The fear expressed by Naidu that he would be targeted after Karnataka elections only showed that he had been opening peace channels through his coterie to appease Prime Minister, he said.
Reddy alleged that in the name of deeksha, a whopping Rs 30 crores were spent and 600 RTC buses from Guntur plied to and fro the venue and state wide the number could be 1,000 and RTC incurred a loss of Rs 12 crores for ferrying the passengers free of cost.
Though the Chief Minister had preached that bandhs and protests are non-productive, when it came to practice his intent was clear, he said.
