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Babu vows never to meet PM
Babu Vows Never to Meet PM, Tribunal Award, Krishna Waters Allocation Award. Red-faced over refusal of appointment to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday vowed never to meet the Prime Minister on any issue.
- Angry over not getting PM’s appointment over Brijesh Kumar Tribunal Award
- TDP MPs stage dharna in front of Singh’s house
New Delhi: Red-faced over refusal of appointment to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday vowed never to meet the Prime Minister on any issue. Naidu said the appointment was sought to explain to the Prime Minister the injustice caused to Andhra Pradesh, as a result of Brijesh Kumar Tribunal Award on Krishna waters allocations. “This is not a personal insult to me but to the Telugu people,” Naidu said. For six to seven times, the Prime Minister had refused appointment to him. He had now decided to send his representation to the Prime Minister by courier service, he said. This time round, Naidu said he had been seeking appointment for the past four days and for two days he had been camping in the capital, but the Prime Minister did not show the minimum courtesy to at least convey that he was busy and could not meet him.
Protesting against the attitude of the Prime Minister, TDP MPs Nama Nageshwar Rao, Y S Chowdhury, C M Ramesh, T Devender Goud, N Kistappa and Gundu Sudha Rani staged a dharna in front of the Prime Minister’s 7, Race Course Road residence.
The Delhi Police acted with alacrity and arrested them and removed them from the spot. Y S Chowdhary said the Prime Minister was ignoring the injustice meted out to Andhra Pradesh with the recent verdict of Brijesh Kumar Tribunal over Krishna waters allocation award.
Earlier, Chandrababu Naidu declared that the TDP would raise the issue of Brijesh Kumar Tribunal Award and the failure of the Centre to declare cyclone havoc in Andhra Pradesh as National Calamity. Despite the State delivering 33 MPs to the Congress, for the past nine-and-a-half years the Centre had been consistently neglecting and ignoring Andhra Pradesh. What are the 13 Union Ministers from Andhra Pradesh doing to secure their just rights for Andhra Pradesh, he asked.
Citing the example of how the Prime Minister buckled under pressure from Tamil Nadu and skipped the CHOGM Summit in Sri Lanka, Naidu wondered why the Prime Minister did not respond in a similar way when it comes to Andhra Pradesh. Describing the conduct and behaviour of the Prime Minister as highly objectionable, he accused him of meting out step-motherly treatment to Andhra Pradesh. On Rayala-Telangana decision of the Congress-led UPA Government, he asked a counter-question why the Centre was not engaging the JACs and civil society on both sides of the divide. The due Constitutional processes were being given a go-by, he said and it was reflective of the government decision to bulldoze with its own decisions, taken without any consultations with the people concerned.
