Hyderabad sources reported that AP Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu drew fire for criticizing Prime Minister Narendra Modi who said that 40 Trinamool Congress legislators were in touch with him. When reacting to Mr. Modi’s comments, Mr. Naidu called it “horse trading” on Twitter. Reacting to this, several persons asked him why he had admitted 23 YSR Congress MLAs and MPs into the Telugu Desam.
Reportedly Mr. Modi had said at a rally in West Bengal on Monday that the 40 TMC MLAs would desert their party once the BJP wins the general elections. When reacting to this, Mr. Naidu said in a message on his Twitter page “This is nothing but horse trading, that too when the election process is on and the model code of conduct is in force. The Election Commission should immediately and suo motu, take cognizance of these shameful remarks by the PM and initiate action against him and the PM is now to destroy democracy itself.”
Moreover Mr. Naidu and Mr. Rao have encouraged defections. In AP, Mr Naidu has admitted 23 YSR Congress MLA and made some of them ministers. Apparently he also admitted YSR Congress MPs into his party and YSR Congress president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy follows the policy of TD founder N.T. Rama Rao. Further he has openly said that if any public representative wants to join his party, he or she would first have to resign from their posts.
