No truck with Congress

Chittoor: Deputy Chief Minister and home minister N Chinarajappa scoffed at the allegations by YSRCP and BJP that the TDP was going to join hands with TDP following gesture of curtesy by Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu towards Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi in Bengaluru on Wednesday, saying that the Chief Minister had attended the swearing-in of H D Kumaraswamy in view of the long time friendship with JD(S) bigwigs.

“On that occasion, for courtesy sake, Chief Minister  greeted  AICC president  Rahul  Gandhi  and  Sonia Gandhi and there is no   political  significance to it,” he clarified  and made it clear that there is no need for TDP to maintain   close relations with  Congress in near future as it was the party which was solely responsible for the bifurcation of the state. 

The Deputy Chief Minister inaugurated Chittoor I Town Model Police station on Thursday along with  two more model  police stations, one each at   SR Puram and Vedurukuppam. Industries  Minister N Amaranatha  Reddy, Chittoor  MP Dr N Siva Prasad, ZP Chairperson Girvani  Chandra Prakash and others  were present.

Speaking  to the media on the occasion,  the home minister alleged  that YSRCP and  BJP  had hatched  a conspiracy  to destabilise the state  by hook or crook. He blamed  that YSRCP  joined hands  with BJP   at the behest of the  Prime Minister Narendra Modi.  “YSRCP leader and MP V Vijayasai  Reddy, accused No 2 in 12 cases, maintains  close rapport  with Prime Minister.

He has no moral right to comment on Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu,” he stated.  Referring  the comments  of  Ramana Deekshitulu, former chief archaka at Tirumala temple,  Chinarajappa reiterated that Deekshitulu  was instigated by the BJP  and  YSRCP  leaders  for degrading the credibility of TTD.  The TDP government would never entertain any illegal and irrelevant transactions in TTD administration, the home minister categorically declared.