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Watch: Vundavalli tears into Chandrababu Naidu

Watch: Vundavalli tears into Chandrababu Naidu

Speaking in the Assembly recently, Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu said, "I’ve been observing for the past couple of days, every Tom, Dick and Harry is commenting on me.

I have never indulged in selfish politics. I respect everyone and frankly speaking, I am the senior most leader in the country. That is the respect accorded to me by people."

Responding to this statement, Vundavalli Arun Kumar said, "I don’t understand how you (Chandrababu Naidu) can claim to be the senior most leader in the nation.

On what basis are you saying this? If you are saying on the basis of Chief Ministership then Naveen Patnaik of Orissa has been the CM continuously for seventeen years now.

Karunanidhi has been Chief Minister five times and an MLA for 60 years. And there are contemporaries who became CM before you like Sharad Pawar, Farooq Abdullah, Antony, Mulayam Singh Yadav etc. So, you are definitely not a senior as CM.

Even your own TDP MLA Gorantla Buchiah Chowdary is senior to you. He became an MLA in 1983 and you fought on a Congress ticket that year and lost your deposit.

So, how about becoming an MLA? I became an MLA in 1978, so did KE Krishnamurthy and Ashok Gajapathi Raju. Why do you suddenly feel the need to assert yourself as the senior most? Is it because of insecurity? If a person in the capacity of Chief Minister becomes so insecure, then only God can save the State. 

Even Jyothi Basu, the longest serving Chief Minister in Indian History never issued such a statement. Pandit Nehru who was Prime Minister for 18 years never issued such a statement.

People know that you have never won a single election on your own. In 2004, YS Rajasekhar Reddy took the support of TRS, Left parties and others but in 2009, he fought the election single-handedly despite everyone advising him against it. That was the spirit of YSR.

On the other hand, you have forged alliances and made calculative moves every time. But now, you seem to be besieged by a huge sense o inferiority complex and this is very dangerous for the State. Kindly think about what you are saying and doing."

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