TDP leaders lauches offensive against BJP

Visakhapatnam: As expected, the Telugu Desam Party launched an offensive against the BJP and the Centre with every leader accusing the BJP of cheating Andhra Pradesh. Media conferences were held by State Women’s Commission chairperson Nannapaneni Rajakumari and Minorities leader and Urdu Academy chairman Nauman in Visakhapatnam and social welfare Minister Nakka Anandababu in Vijayawada to portray the BJP as a cheat.

Spitting fire, Rajakumari who claimed that she was speaking on behalf of 2.5 crore women of Andhra Pradesh, said BJP meted out step-motherly treatment to the State during the past four years. People suffered due to demonetisation and even today there is no money in the ATMs, she lamented. Despite Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu making several trips to Delhi, the Centre did not come forward to implement even a single aspect of the AP Reorganisation Act, she alleged.

Nauman said that the Chief Minister was fed up with the Centre and took the decision to withdraw the two Union Ministers of TDP from the Central Cabinet. Modi cheated the people and Lord Balaji of Tirupati was witness to it as the former had made the promises to the State at the pilgrim centre.

Meanwhile, Anandababu went a step ahead and accused YSR Congress party president YS Jaganmohan Reddy for joining hands with the BJP which had cheated Andhra Pradesh. “After working with the BJP for three-and-a-half years, we parted ways as we could not believe it anymore, whereas, YCP leader Vijaysai Reddy says he has hope in the Cente which exposes their secret pact with the BJP, he alleged.

With the TDP president and Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu asking the party cadres to go all out against the BJP from the village-level, it is likely that the TDP leaders would vie with each other to criticise the BJP unrelentingly till the next elections.