With the Opposition parties raising the volume on the non-forthcoming of the ‘special status’ announcement at the Amaravati fete, the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) has finally decided to go on the offensive.
The party hit back at the Congress and YSR Congress (YSRC) parties for raising a hullabaloo over what it calls a ‘non-issue’.
Former Minister and MLC Somireddy Chandramohan Reddy flayed the YSRC for rejecting the invite and the Congress for staying away from the glittering function, thus hurting the sentiments of the people of the state, who ‘aspired’ to see the new capital emerge.
“While the Chief Minister did raise the topic with the Prime Minister Mr. Modi, it is inappropriate and ill-mannered to press for the demand at the ceremony attended by cross section of personalities”, he observed.
Mr. Reddy was in Tirupati on Monday to address the TDP workers at the state-level training sessions currently under way.
On Jagan’s Deeksha for letting down the ‘impoverished state’, Mr. Chandramohan Reddy questioned if it was not due to YSR and Jagan that the state had turned impoverished.
He suggested to Mr. Jagan to surrender the properties identified by the CBI as ‘ill-gotten’, before talking about people’s welfare.
