Naidu pulls up Ravela on remarks over ties with BJP
HYDERABAD: Upset by his cabinet colleague Ravela Kishore Babu's remark that the TDP would reconsider its alliance with the BJP, Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu is understood to have pulled him up for the comments that might have implications.
Kishore Babu, during a tour of Guntur district on Monday, said that the TDP would review its alliance with the BJP if the latter continued to work at cross purposes with the TDP.
He was reacting to state BJP general secretary J Shyam Kishore's statement that his party would fight on behalf of farmers if the TDP government chose to take away their lands forcibly for construction of the state capital.
'We will not compromise on our ideology for the sake of BJP,' Kishore Babu asserted at a press conference at Prathipadu.
With Kishore's comments embarrassing the TDP, Naidu told him that he should not bother about political alliances and not show enthusiasm to make statements that could damage the relations with the BJP and the Centre. Naidu advised him to mind his social welfare department and not talk about TDP-BJP ties.
Kishore Babu is said to have told the chief minister that he made the comment unable to digest the fact that the BJP was aiming to play a bigger role in the state regardless of the fact that it would hurt the interests of the TDP.
He pointed out how the BJP had welcomed into its fold former Congress minister Kanna Lakshminarayana, a known critic of Chandrababu Naidu and the Telugu Desam.
Echoing the party's stand, health minister Kamineni Srinivas said that political alliances were beyond the purview of ministers and it was for the party leadership to take decisions.
'The political alliance with the BJP is intended to benefit the state,' he explained.
News Posted: 5 November, 2014
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