Amit Shah, Chandrababu Naidu continue bitter war of words
BY Team MP24 March 2018 11:38 PM IST
Team MP25 March 2018 5:15 AM IST
Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday hit out at BJP president Amit Shah for blaming the TDP for leaving the NDA, saying that the decision was solely for the state's interests and not guided by any "political considerations." Rebutting Shah's charge in this regard, Naidu described the nine-page letter the BJP chief wrote to him as "pack of lies."
The letter was in response to the four-page missive Naidu sent on March 16, explaining the reasons for TDP quitting the BJP-led NDA. Raising the issue in the Andhra Pradesh assembly, Naidu said, "What Shah wrote is a pack of lies and half-truths. It is not only insulting but also provoking the people of AP. It lacked any dignity."
The language used in the letter was "unbecoming of a national party president," the chief minister said. "Is there dignity in it? The letter is full of discrepancies and mistakes. Except for finding fault with me, the letter did not address the issues concerning AP," the TDP supremo noted.
He asked the Narendra Modi government if it had the guts to review the implementation of the AP Reorganisation Act, 2014 and place the facts before Parliament. Naidu also asked if the Gujarat government, when Narendra Modi was chief minister for 10-12 years, used pictures of then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi for Central schemes.
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