Known for his acerbic tongue, Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Saturday made a mincemeat of his Andhra Pradesh counterpart and Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu at his press conference held after his return from his week-long tour on his federal front mission.
KCR was particularly angry over Naidu’s comments on the bifurcation of high court and also on the former’s federal front efforts.
Referring to the high court division issue, KCR wondered whether Naidu had any brain to speak whatever that came to his mind.
“Is it the way a responsible chief minster should speak? It was Naidu government which had given an undertaking in the Supreme Court that it would make all arrangements for the shifting of high court to AP by December. Accordingly, SC gave a direction and the Centre implemented the order through Presidential notification. How can he cast aspersions on the Centre now?” he asked.
On Naidu’s comments on the federal front efforts, KCR lost his cool.
“Chandrababu Naidu is the dirtiest politician in the country. Hats off to the people of Andhra Pradesh for having such a person as their chief minister. He is a shameless character with a diabolic tongue. Why is he bothered whether I meet Naveen Patnaik or Yellaiah? Does he have any knowledge about the economic model that I have proposed for the federal front?” he asked.
Stating that Naidu had no consistency in his talk or policies, KCR said: “For four years, he licked the armpits of Narendra Modi. Now, he is licking those of Rahul Gandhi. Before 2014, he asked the people not to allow Rahul Gandhi into AP for bifurcating AP. Now, he is calling upon the people to boycott Modi. He played down the demand for special category status to AP saying it was not Sanjeevani. Now, he is demanding the same. Can you find such a dubious character in politics anywhere in the country?” he asked/
He said Naidu was not a leader but just a manager.
“He is surviving only because of the false publicity in the media. “In his white papers, he presents a rosy picture of the state. At the same time, he goes to the Centre with a begging bowl and accuses it of not helping the state at all,” he criticised and added that Naidu was going to face a humiliating defeat in the elections.