If Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has faith in democracy, he should ask the 17 MLAs who defected to the TDP to first resign and get re-elected, YSR Congress MLA R.K. Roja has said.
Ms. Roja, who took part in party president Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy’s ‘jala deeksha’ in Kurnool on the second day on Tuesday, charged Mr. Naidu with utilising funds meant for mitigating drought to engineering defections.
Stating that drought was inevitable whenever Mr. Naidu headed the government, Ms. Roja said that the State witnessed severe drought during his previous nine-year rule. “Drought conditions are prevailing for the last two years,” she added. Without any concern for the situation, Mr. Naidu was going on foreign jaunts, she said.
The Government was averse to Rayalaseema as the TDP did not win MLA seats in the region, she alleged. The Government was indifferent to the Galeru-Nagari and Handri-Neeva projects, she added.
