Hyderabad: In an obvious reference to Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao asking “what business does he have campaigning for the GHMC polls,” TD national president and AP Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu said he had every right to campaign for his party anywhere and there would be no compromise with anyone in taking up a political fight.
Hitting the city roads for his two-day campaign on Thursday, Mr Naidu said he never feared anybody in his 40 years in public life including former Prime Ministers late Indira Gandhi and late Rajiv Gandhi and AICC president Sonia Gandhi.
Mr Naidu said, “I fear no one, there is no compromise on political issues and political fights, The TD will continue to be strong in Telangana as long as Telugus are alive.”
Criticising successive governments that ruled after he demitted the office in 2004, Mr Naidu said at Patancheru “I developed Hyderabad city. I created all the infrastructure and employment opportunities for several lakhs of people, but has development come to a standstill in the last 12 years. No new project has been taken up. I planned the Metro Rail, but they have not completed it even after 12 years.”
He said as Chief Minister of AP, his relations with his TS counterpart would continue.
“Though we cooperate on issues being CMs politically we continue to be adversaries,” Mr Naidu said.
Referring to criticism from certain quarters that he left Hyderabad for Vijayawada, Mr Naidu said no one could separate him from claiming all the three regions of undivided AP, and there was no question of his ignoring Telangana or Hyderabad.
“I did not leave Hyderabad. My properties are here, my wife, children and grandson are all staying here. There is no question of ignoring TD interests in Telangana,” Mr Naidu said.
Pointing to the defection of TD Kukatpally MLA M. Krishna Rao to the TRS, he said that the people had voted for the TD and would do so again. He said the party was not disturbed by the defections.
