Finance Minister T Harish Rao slammed Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday for the injustice meted out to Telangana during the latter’s nine-year regime in the erstwhile Andhra Pradesh. He characterized Naidu’s public meeting in Khammam on Wednesday as a desperate attempt to woo the BJP into an electoral alliance in Andhra Pradesh.

The Minister recalled that the people of Andhra Pradesh had rejected and expelled Naidu as a result of his failed policies. He was now attempting to cheat the people of Telangana promising to develop the State.

“The people of Telangana will never forget the injustice done to Telangana under the Naidu government in erstwhile Andhra Pradesh,” he said. He compared the TDP chief to an out-of-circulation coin and with no value in Telangana.

Harish Rao, along with Ministers Puvvada Ajay Kumar, V Srinivas Goud, and Koppula Eeshwar, responded to Naidu’s claims about Hyderabad and Khammam development under his regime on Thursday, mocking Naidu for taking credit even for ending the fluorosis problem in Nalgonda and for the Covid vaccine. “If given a chance, Naidu will take credit even for the sun rising in the east,” they said.

Speaking on the occasion, the Finance Minister claimed that Naidu deceived thousands of unemployed Telangana youth by declaring Hyderabad a free zone. He stated that Telangana youth who questioned injustice and demanded jobs were killed after being labeled Naxalites.

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“Chandrababu Naidu cheated all communities in Telangana and did the same in the truncated State of Andhra Pradesh. It was during his rule that the highest number of farmers’ suicides occurred in the Telangana region. He was also responsible for killing farmers during protests against the power tariff hike at Basheerbagh,” he lashed out.

Harish Rao stated that during Naidu’s rule, minor irrigation system was neglected with Naidu even saying on record that agriculture was ‘waste’. He claimed that Naidu’s efforts to confuse and woo a segment of Telangana people were aimed at forming an electoral alliance with the BJP in Andhra Pradesh.

Transport Minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar claimed that Naidu had done a grave injustice to Telangana, particularly the Khammam district, by transferring seven mandals and the 460 megawatt Lower Sileru hydro-electric project to Andhra Pradesh within a month after the State formation. He claimed that Naidu did not bother to seek Telangana’s consent and even stopped sharing power generated in Andhra Pradesh, in violation of the provisions of the AP Reorganisation Act.

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