There are compulsions for like minded parties to unite against BJP says Naidu

The main political actor of the non BJP opposition unity, Andhra Pradesh Chief minister and the Telugu Desam Party chief Chandra Babu Naidu finds Rahul Gandhi good, attitude wise, while the prime minister Narendra Modi as arrogant despite the hard fact that till just a year ago he was continuously with the BJP led NDA since its forming the government in 2014 having all praise for him and had 35 year old political rivalry with the Congress party since Telugu Desam Party was formed by his father in law and the super star of the South towering legend N. T. Rama Rao three decades ago.

Extremely furious against the prime minister Narendra Modi and the BJP led NDA for not granting Andhra Pradesh, the special status and separate budget despite the pre election assurance, Telugu Desam Party chief Chandra Babu Naidu says that he has no option but to fight the Centre which has been unjust to Andhra Pradesh by backing out of the promise to grant special catagory status to AP thus neglecting the Telugu pride.

Not only this but the Modi government has done injustice with the people of the nation as well by ruining contry’s economy, being intolerant towards the minorities n Dalits, witch hunting of the political rivals by allegedly misusing CBI, ED, IT and RBI and crippling the democratic institutions of the country.

The TDP leader who alongwith the Congress chief Rahul Gandhi addressed several rallies in Telengana, kick starting their joint campaign spoke to Sriniwasa Rao Apparasu of HT in an exclusive interview published today.

On the question regarding his sudden ideological shift allying with the three decade’s old rival Congress, the TDP chief said it wasn’t the question of an ideological shift but a democratic compulsion as in India politics is guided by the ideological and political compulsions.

He added that politival parties that earlier fought with one another on political compulsions had come together due to ideological compulsions.

To substantiate his contention Naidu gave the example of West Bengal and Kerala where the Congress and CPM fought against each other but came together to fight the BJP unitedly.

He said today there is a democratic compulsion for all the likeminded opposition parties to join hands as the BJP led NDA government under Modi has ruined denocratic institutions and had been misusing all constitutional entities to allegedly take revenge from its its political rivals.

On the question of Rahul Gandhi being the consensus candidate of the future grand alliance Chandra Babu Naidu denied saying that the decision on the prime ministerial candidate would be taken after the polls and they don’t want to even talk on it for now.

On the question of the timing of the anti BJP opposition alliance by Sriniwasa Rao Apparasu Telugu Desam chief said : We have made the beginning in the new direction and are meeting in New Delhi on December 10th next month in order to discuss the futire course of action.

I m doing my bit, so is West Bengal CM Mamata Bennerjee and others are also coming forward to. The meeting would be discussing various issues including the minimum basic common programmes.

Regarding the sustainability of the grand alliance in the near future Chandra Babu Naidu said: if one looks at the country’s political history there were stable government’s in the pre liberalisation era but the economic growth was merely 2 to 3%.

After the reforms there had been minority and coalision governments but all of them performed well in sustaining the economy and taking up the welfare and development agenda.

But we now have a Modi government which has miserably failed. He said : it’s ultimately the peoples’ welfare which is of paramount interest.