Guntur: Upping the ante, Union minister of state for human resource development Daggubati Purandareswari has questioned the authority of N Chandrababu Naidu in claiming successorship of TDP founder-president N T Rama Rao.
Sticking to her theory that “Y S Rajasekhara Reddy is the true successor of NTR,” she said the chief minister’s propoor policies like the Rs 2-a-kg rice scheme, free power for ryots, etc, are very much in tune with NTR’s welfare vision.
“The chief minister is implementing the programmes to help the poor just like my father has envisioned,” she said while talking to reporters here on Monday. Training her guns on the TDP president, she said Naidu has not only usurped power from NTR but has also dumped the policies of NTR. Purandareswari said the TDP leaders should conduct an introspection before reacting to her statements.
On former minister Kodela Sivaprasada Rao’s charge that she is praising the CM to safeguard her position in the Congress, Pur a n - dareswari said she is not running after power or posts like TDP leaders do. “I really do not understand as to why the TDP leaders are worrying so much on the successorship of NTR. They should first introspect as to where and why they have failed to continue the policies of NTR,” she said.
Saying that the TDP owes an apology to the public for discontinuing the policies of NTR, she said Naidu never thought of the poor and distressed people when he was in power for nine years.
“It is no wonder Naidu is chanting pro-farmer policies as it is his biggest skill to change colours to suit the situation. He will do anything to reclaim power. But people are no fools to believe him,” Purandareswari lashed out.
In Vijayawada, Congress legislator Devineni Nehru defended Purandareswari saying that YSR is the real successor to NTR.
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