Chandrababu Naidu to Narendra Modi: ‘Are you not ashamed to visit Andhra Pradesh with empty hands?’ 

Chandrababu Naidu.

Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu, on Thursday, has took a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and rhetorically asked him if he was not ashamed to visit the state with nothing to offer for the state. Naidu also said Modi owed an explanation to the state’s “five crore people” over unfulfilled promises, vis-a-vis the Andhra Pradesh Reorganization Act, 2014.

The chief minister, in a letter to Modi, on the eve of the prime minister’s scheduled visit to Visakhapatnam, on Friday, said the Andhra Pradesh Reorganization Act came into being 59 months ago while Modi became the prime minister 57 months ago. And he also claimed that the people of Andhra Pradesh are seething over Modi’s “betrayal, injustice and cheating” for the last five years.

Naidu, in the letter, a copy of which was also released to the media, wrote: “Are you not ashamed to visit Andhra Pradesh with empty hands, by not implementing the promises made by the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and also those enlisted in the (Andhra Pradesh) Reorganization Act? As a person holding a high office, you owe an explanation on all these issues. I am demanding that you answer the five-crore people of the state on these.”

In his letter, Naidu also raised issues like special category status, funds for the Polavaram project, Amaravati city, bridging of revenue deficit, Metro rail for Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada and increasing number of seats in the Andhra Pradesh legislative assembly.

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