Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu has similar qualities of Bhallala Deva, the villain character in the popular national-award winning Telugu film Baahubali, according to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Playing to the gallery of the film-loving audiences in Rajahmundry public meeting on Monday, the Prime Minister said like Bhalla Deva in Baahubali, Naidu would also go to any length to usurp power.
“His only aim is to come to power by any means. For that, he can stoop down to any level,” he alleged.
Modi also took a dig at Naidu referring to the latter’s family business concern Heritage Group. Stating that the people of Andhra Pradesh have rich cultural heritage, he said while the BJP was striving to protect this heritage, Naidu is destroying it for the sake of his own “Heritage.”
The Prime Minister also accused Naidu of treating Polavaram major irrigation project like an ATM centre.
He alleged that the chief minister had repeatedly escalated the project cost only for the sake of commissions.
“We have taken up Polavaram as a national project and released Rs 7,000 crore for the same. But Naidu has no sincerity in completing the same. He went on increasing the project cost for taking kickbacks, but has no intention of completing the same,” he alleged.
Modi also alleged that Naidu had resorted to stealing of people’s personal data for his political gains.
“The data was collected by TDP’s Seva Mitra application. But Naidu is neither a “mitra” (friend) of anybody nor does he do any “seva” (service) to the people, but his intention was to steal the data for personal gains,” he said.
