Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday termed his recent tete-a-tete with his Telangana counterpart K. Chandrasekhar Rao as a welcome return to good relations and declared his intention to end all differences with the latter.
Asked how the meeting went when he called on the Telangana Chief Minister to invite him to the Amaravati ceremony, Mr Naidu said, “It was good. I wanted to bury the past. He is positive. It is good that he has accepted our invitation.” He asserted that he did not harbour enmity towards anybody: “Development is my agenda. I need more well-wishers and friends. At the same time, we have to sort out issues amicably in the overall interests of both the States.” Recalling that N T Rama Rao launched the TDP on the plank of self-respect of the Telugus, Mr. Naidu said he now had the twin responsibilities as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh and as TDP central committee chief in Telangana. “I will have to carry everybody with me. We will not gain anything by fighting,” he remarked. Asked whether by speeding up his capital city project was not giving up his right to Hyderabad for 10 years, he said, “The right is meant for the people, not for me. The TDP is there in Hyderabad, Telangana and also in Andhra Pradesh. Whenever I want to go there, I can go.”
