Janjivan Bureau
New Delhi: Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu will meet Prime Minister narendra Modi today. Naidu may explain the cash for vote episode to Modi.
Naidu’s Telugu Desam Party (TDP) filed a slew of cases against Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) and others, a day after audio tapes surfaced with purported phone conversations of the Andhra CM asking a Telangana MLA to vote in favour of a party candidate in local elections.
“Let me tell you it is not in your capacity to intimidate me. Remember that I am not alone. My fight is for my people who are with me,” Naidu said to a rousing applause at a rally in Guntur to mark the first anniversary of his government. “I also have a police force and ACB (anti-corruption bureau) in Hyderabad. Telangana is not your property, and I am not alone here. All five crore Andhra people are with me.”
TDP workers held protests and burnt effigies of KCR while ministers and legislators backed Naidu, accusing the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) of plotting against their leader.
“The voice on the tape is not of our CM. This is nothing but a conspiracy and we are going to fight it out legally, constitutionally, politically and publicly,” said Parakala Prabhakar, adviser to the Andhra Pradesh government. “The TRS government should explain if it has tapped the phones of our CM.”
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