NEW DELHI: A day after the trust vote in Lok Sabha, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu Saturday said that the no-confidence motion moved by TDP was a battle of majority versus the morality and that he was pained by Prime Minister Narendra Modi comparing him with corrupt politicians.
Naidu said that 5 crore people of the state have been betrayed by the government despite promises made by the PM and now the whole nation knows about the injustice done to our State by the NDA government.
The chief minister said that the PM should not have talked about petty things during his speech in parliament on no-confidence motion. The Prime Minister during his reply said that when the TDP decided to pull out of the government, he spoke to Naidu and told him that he was falling in a trap of his rival YSR Congress.
“He said you are falling in the trap of YSR Congress. I told him as far as I am doing right things, nothing can happen to me and my party. I also asked him how can he compare me with tainted people. YSRCP’s leader is going to court every week. We are in Parliament and such statements are not expected from a prime minister,” Naidu told reporters.
On the party’s future course of action, Naidu said that the party will continue to take up the matter strongly at all possible platforms. He expressed anguish over Modi describing the state’s demand for a special category status as the party’s internal fight with YSR Congress.
He contested Modi’s statement in parliament that a special category status cannot be granted to the state as one of the members of the 14th Finance Commission had said that they have no role to play in it. “Nowhere in the report it was said that special category status cannot be extended to a state by the Centre,” he pointed out.
The no-confidence motion was moved by Chandrababu Naidu’s Telugu Desam Party (TDP) which, until recently, was an NDA constituent but pulled out of the grouping to demand special category status for Andhra Pradesh that was bifurcated and Telangana carved out of it in 2014.
The bifurcation is said to have caused huge financial and resource losses to Andhra, as capital Hyderabad and IT city Cyberabad went to Telangana.