The latest comments made by Telugu Desam Party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a visionary and supporting his policies have attracted more enemies than friends to him.
Several social activists like Laxminarayana and neutral political activists, who have hitherto been showing soft corner towards Naidu because of their opposition towards chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, are now fuming at the TDP chief.
Even the Communist parties, who have been extending support to Naidu all these days criticising the witch-hunt by the Jagan Mohan Reddy government, have turned their ire on Naidu.
On Friday, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) launched a scathing attack on Naidu for extending support for the BJP-led Modi government at the Centre.
CPI (M) leaders Tammineni Veerabhadram and Srinivasa Rao recalled that Naidu had earlier said that the BJP never worked for nation’s development and wondered what development the TDP leader had noticed of late.
“Has Modi kept his promise of housing for all the poor?”, they asked.
Tammineni said Modi had not kept his word of doubling the income of farmers, and introducing bullet trains by 2022. He sought to know whether Naidu was now travelling by bullet train.
“Chandrababu should also clarify if Modi gave the 18 crore jobs he had promised. He is not seeing development in Modi rule but only an opportunity. He desperately wants to regain power in Andhra Pradesh. Chandrababu is talking of Modi Vision and is there a place for the poor and the people in it? It is capitalists’ vision, fundamentalists’ vision. Modi and Chandrababu have no vision, but division,” he remarked.
Srinivasa Rao referred to the privatisation of steel plant which the TDP claimed to oppose. But when the Modi government was going ahead with privatisation, Chandrababu was still supporting it, he pointed out.