Alleging a political conspiracy against his government by the BJP and other rival parties, Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu has decided to take the fight to New Delhi on Saturday. He will meet leaders of non-BJP parties and brief them about the developments in the State and garner their support.
Mr. Naidu is expected to address a press conference in Delhi on the recent developments, including the attack on Leader of the Opposition and YSR Congress Party president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, role of Governors in the wake of Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan directly calling the DGP of Andhra Pradesh on Thursday and Income Tax (IT) raids in the State. For the last few days, the Chief Minister has been alleging that political parties like YSRCP, led by BJP, were hatching a conspiracy to create law and order problem and try to impose Presidential Rule.
Mr. Naidu is likely to spend a large part of his stay in Delhi meeting key leaders of Opposition parties. Kick-starting a nation-wide debate on the institution of Governor tops his agenda. Also, he would air his apprehensions on the “evil designs of the Centre”.
This is his second attempt in the recent months to bring all the political parties onto one platform to wage a united fight against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). In April, he camped in Delhi to enlist support for his party’s no-confidence motion against the Modi government.
On the second day of Collectors’ conference here on Friday Mr. Naidu dropped enough hints in this regard. “Generally, we don’t follow our intuition, which takes us in the right direction. Things fall in line automatically if one follows his intuitions. Tomorrow, I might take the fight to Delhi. And, there would be friends to support me,” he said.
Launching a scathing attack on the institution of the Governor, he said: “Either the Governors have become the secret agents for the Centre or helping it in hatching conspiracies against the State governments.” The Sarkaria Commission was the result of the TDP’s fight against the institution of the Governor, he recalled.
“Though it might look like a theory, but if one thinks practically, it is clear that attempts are being made to establish that the law and order has failed in the State. The apprehensions are not unfounded if one connects dots from Tirumala Tirupati Devsthanam row to attack on Mr. Jagan. The developments taking place in the State fall in a pattern. It seems they wanted to impose Presidents’ rule in the State on the pretext of law and order failure,” he said.