With Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu’s sudden U-turn on demonetisation creating ripples in political and media circles, Bharatiya Janata Party has quickly came to his rescue and played down his comments.
BJP national secretary and Andhra Pradesh in-charge Siddharth Nath Singh said the Andhra chief minister had not said anything different from what Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other BJP leaders said about difficulties being faced by people.
“What he is saying is nothing different from what Modi said that there should be least difficulty to the common man. He indicated to the government for expediting money circulation,” Singh said.
The concerns Naidu had raised about difficulties being faced by people were quite natural and it was something the BJP leaders had also talked about, he added.
Asked about Naidu’s denouncement of people handling the exercise, he said what the Andhra chief minister has said is also being “grossly misreported”.
