Expressing his impatient over the continuous agitation programmes of the main opposition party YSR Congress, the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu warned that the people will reject outright the main opposition party in the next election if it did not change its `destructive’ approach. Further, without naming the party he said it would lose its status and disappear if it continues its `destructive’ approach and called it as atrocious.
While claiming that his government has been working hard for the development of the state, Naidu accused that opposition is adopting `evil designs’ to create hurdle. Even when he was jubilant after getting Rs 1981 crore NABARD loan for Polavaram project, he didn’t mincing words in denouncing the opposition’s presence.
Yesterday in Tirupati, the Chief Minister alleged that the opposition party has been inciting farmers to stall Polavaram Project and approached court. After failing in their first attempt in the court, he said that they also petitioned to Green Tribunal. Later, he alleges that the opposition went to other states like Odissa and Chhattisgarh to instigate the people there against the dam construction. “It is simply atrocious”, he thundered.
However, the Chief Minister warned that It was all because some support they got, gave it the opposition tag he said chiding a section of the media also which he said too was supporting it (opposition).
Meanwhile, former minister and senior YSRCP leader K Parthasarathy strongly refuted Naidu’s accusations against his party and questioned Minister’s claims that completing of Polavaram is his life ambition. Recalling that the TDP didn’t mentioned it in its 2004 and 2009 election manifestos, he ridiculed him to say when it was entered into his dreams.
He wondered that Naidu is celebrating just for getting a loan payment from NABARD by cutting cake. “It was already specifically mentioned in the AP Reorganisation Act stating Polavaram would be completed making it as a national project. How can Chandrababu claims as it is his credit?”, he asked.
Stating that after TDP government taken the responsibility of constructing the project the estimation value was increased from Rs 16,010.45 crore to Rs 40,351.65 crore, the former minister asks whether the centre would bear the increased amount?
