Bharatiya Janata Party and Telugu Desam Party who fought the elections together in 2014, might have parted ways more than a year ago and traded charges against each other.
But, they seem to have come together insofar as attacking the YSR Congress party government headed by Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy.
In fact, the BJP is attacking the YSRC more than the TDP, thereby giving a lot of moral support to the latter so that it can recover from the recent electoral shock.
On issues like Polavaram contract, review of power purchase agreements and now, the Amaravati capital issue, the BJP is going more aggressively than the TDP, thereby virtually endorsing the decisions taken by the TDP government headed by N Chandrababu Naidu that smacked of corruption and nepotism.
Even Naidu’s bitter critic like former Union minister and BJP Mahila Morcha national convenor Daggubati Purandeshwari came in support of the TDP government’s stand on Polavaram project.
“The Jagan government has committed a blunder by terminating the contract of the company executing the project and going in for reverse tenders. Such hasty decisions by the government will result in halt of investments into the state,” she said.
Purandeshwari said the Centre had never given its approval to the Jagan government to stall the Polavaram works.
“If Jagan thinks there were any irregularities, he can order an inquiry and take appropriate action. But stopping the works and going in for re-tenders is not correct,” she said.
Another BJP leader and Rajya Sabha member G V L Narasimha Rao accused the Jagan government of acting with vengeance against the previous government, instead of taking practical decisions.
“What will happen to the farmers who had given away their lands to the capital, if it is shifted?” he asked.