New Delhi sources reported that soon after the Telugu Desam Party chief accused the Centre of "mud-slinging" and working to damage his credibility, the BJP fielded Union minister Prakash Javadekar to counter him. Accordingly Javadekar, accompanied by state BJP chief K Hari Babu and party spokesperson and Rajya Sabha member G V L Narasimha Rao, accused Naidu of "blame game".
Meanwhile the HRD minister cited a number of projects linked to IIT, Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy, IIIT and AIIMS, among others, besides the central work on the Polavaram project to claim that the Modi government's commitment to the state's development was firm. Moreover he noted that party chief Amit Shah had in a letter to Naidu listed a number of projects which the Centre had granted to the state.
Moreover when asked about Naidu's charges against the Centre, he said they
were frivolous. "No one will believe them." He also termed Naidu's
claim that the BJP was getting close to the YSR Congress, the TDP's main rival
in the state, as "ridiculous". Furthermore the Modi government has
been "magnanimous" to the state to the extent that many states have
asked it why it was giving so much to one state.
