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Beware of BJP’S evil designs: Chandrababu Naidu
Apparently anticipating a trouble for him and for his government, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday advised the people to be wary of the designs of the BJP govt at the Centre which is working overtime to destabilise his government through methods fair or foul.
Visakhapatnam: Apparently anticipating a trouble for him and for his government, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday advised the people to be wary of the designs of the BJP govt at the Centre which is working overtime to destabilise his government through methods fair or foul.
"You have seen what has happened in Dachepalli in Guntur district. YSRCP local leaders tried to foment trouble after a girl was raped. They were there all over the town, whipping up passions. Lately, there is a scare across the state that some robbers' gang was on the prowl.
The social media of the YSRCP was very active in bruiting such rumours to drive home the point that law and order was taking a knock in the state," Naidu said.
Addressing a huge public meeting - Dharma Porata Sabha - here to focus attention on how the Centre had betrayed the state by denying special category status and by not keeping a host of promises made in the AP State Reorganisation Act, the Chief Minister referred to the allegations of corruption being made against him day and night by one who is steeped in corruption.
"There is going to be a plot after plot against us from now on. People should realise the gameplan of the Centre," he said and asked the audience whether they believed the campaign against him that he was corrupt.
“These words are coming from one who is neck-deep in corruption cases and who appears before courts on ever Friday," he said and pointed out that he was not overly worried since he has an impeccable past and that no can do anything to him.
Referring to the unsavoury controversies erupting now and then involving the Tirumala-Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD), the Chief Minister accused the Centre of trying to play with the religious sentiments of the people through proxies and by engineering a campaign against the holy shrine.
“The former chief priest AV Ramana Deekshithulu, who has Jaganmohan Reddy's portrait in his house instead of Lord Venkateswara, had alleged that a pink diamond in Lord's platinum necklace had gone missing, which is baseless. It was a ruby (kempu) in the necklace which was broken when devotees showered coins in a gesture of devotion on the Lord during a Brahmotsavam procession,” he said.
Naidu warned Jagan not to cross the paths of Lord Venkateswara, as if he does, he will never know what harm will befall him. “Lord Venkateswara is known as Vaddikasulavadu which means that if one does anything unholy, one would have to repay him with interest,” he said.
The Chief Minister wanted the people to put two and two together and understand who is behind all these unusual happenings and teach those forces a fitting lesson. In the next election, the people should elect him to power in the state and also help the TDP win all the 25 MP seats in the state. "With these seats in hand we will be able to dictate who should be the next prime minister of the country," he said.
The Chief Minister surmised that if the BJP was sitting in Opposition benches in Karnataka, it was because of the role played by Telugu voters in the neighbouring state.
All those Telugus who voted against the BJP were those who felt betrayed, he said and announced that he would be going to Bengaluru for the swearing-in ceremony of JD (S) leader HD Kumarswamy as the chief minister on Wednesday.
He recalled the role he (Naidu) had played in 1996 as the convener of the United Front which helped HD Deve Gowda become the prime minister and later IK Gujral. As he has good contacts with all regional parties in the country, he would mobilise support from them for the state's demand for SCS, he said.
Referring to the Polavaram project, Naidu declared that completing the project was his life’s ambition and that the Centre has to fund the entire project. If the estimate has gone up to Rs 58,000 crore, it was because of the new Land Acquisition Act and that it was the responsibility of the Centre to pump in money.
Naidu, at the outset itself, went straight for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's jugular, calling him to account for not keeping the promise of delivering special category status to the state which he had made while addressing a series of meetings ahead of the elections in 2014 and at the public meeting which marked laying of foundation stone for Amaravati in October 2015.
