Respected PM to satisfy ego: Naidu
Congress, Left parties skip AP CM’s meet
During an all-party and all-associations’ meeting held on Saturday, Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu made some inflammatory comments.
Notably, both the Left parties, CPI and CPM, and the Congress attended the first such meeting that was held a few days ago, but skipped the second meeting on Saturday.
“Though Mr Modi is junior to me in politics, since he is the Prime Minister, I respected him to satisfy his ego,” Mr Naidu said. “Mr Modi assured me that he would justly refer to Andhra Pradesh in all the meetings we jointly addressed during the 2014 polls. However, the Centre has now betrayed us. I was the first person to demand Mr Modi’s resignation during Godhra riots. I did not go to Modi seeking an alliance with the party. Mr Modi came to me and said that the Congress had ruined Andhra Pradesh and our parties should join hands for the development of Andhra Pradesh,” Mr Naidu said.
During an all-party and allassociations’ meeting held on Saturday, Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu made some mildly inflammatory comments. He said the government will form a two-layered organisation in which all like-minded associations, organisations, unions and political parties will take part in to fight with the Centre to achieve Special Category Status and also for the implementation of the provisions in the AP Reorganisation Act.
Mr Naidu chaired the allparty and all-associations’ meeting that was held on Saturday to discuss his recent trip to Delhi as part of the effort to pressurise the Centre to grant the Special Category Status.
YSRC, BJP, Jana Sena, Left parties and the Congress had decided to abstain from the meeting.
BJP floor leader in AP Assembly, P. Vishnukumar Raju, wrote to Mr Naidu saying that his party would not attend the meeting and also accused him of taking a completely different stand for political reasons. “The organisation will have two layers or committees. One will be an organising committee and the other will be a coordination committee. The organisation will be formed soon and the committees will finalise a way forward to deal with the Centre.