Nasheman News :  BJP President Amit Shah on Monday launched a scathing attack on Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and made it clear that the doors of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) were closed forever for him.

Exuding confidence that the NDA will retain power and Narendra Modi will become Prime Minister again after the 2019 elections, he predicted that the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief will once again try to come into NDA fold.

“I want to assure the people of Andhra Pradesh and BJP workers that we have closed NDA’s doors forever for Naidu. He will not find a place in the alliance,” he told a public meeting at Palasa town in Srikakulam district while flagging off a ‘bus yatra’ of state BJP President Kanna Laxminarayana.

Recalling that Naidu started his political career as an MLA of Congress, the BJP chief said he always switched loyalties to enjoy power.

“He later joined the TDP formed by N.T. Rama Rao (NTR) and enjoyed power. When he got the opportunity, he betrayed NTR who had promoted him, captured power and the entire party,” said Shah.

“Chandrababu Naidu kept wandering for 10 years. When he realised that he can’t come to power on his own, he joined hands with Modiji and NDA. Now he has left NDA and making allegations against Modiji.”

The BJP chief alleged that Naidu joined hands with the Congress which had insulted Telugu people and did injustice to Andhra Pradesh. 

He recalled that TDP was floated by NTR on the slogan of ‘Telugu pride’. “Now after the drubbing in Telangana elections, he is trying to form Mahagathbandhan.”

Shah said Naidu was trying to mislead the people of Andhra Pradesh. 

On the TDP chief’s allegation that the Centre did injustice to Andhra Pradesh, Shah challenged him to compare the help extended by NDA to the state during last five years with the help received during 55 years of Congress rule. 

He claimed that NDA had given 10 times more help than the Congress. During the 10 years of Congress rule, Andhra Pradesh got only Rs 1.17 lakh crore while the NDA government in last five years provided Rs 5.56 lakh crore.

“You should tell people why you severed ties with the Modi government which provided more funds to the state. It is clear that you are not bothered about development. you are only interested in corruption,” Shah asserted.

The BJP leader said that the NDA government fulfilled 10 of the 14 commitments in the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act 2014. He listed out 20 national institutes set up in the state in last five years.

Claiming that Modi was ready to give more money than the state would got under the Special Category status, he said Naidu did not send the proposals to the Centre and as a result the state was deprived of the funds.

Shah said Naidu had welcomed the special package in the Assembly but when he realised that people were unhappy with his governance, his attempts to make his son the Chief Minister, corruption in construction of capital Amaravati and Polavaram project, he started making false allegations against the BJP to gain public sympathy.

The BJP chief said both TDP and YSR Congress were parties of family rule and can’t do any good to the state. He appealed to people to give a chance to BJP.

Shah later interacted with BJP leaders from four Lok Sabha constituencies: Visakhapatnam, Vijayanagaram, Anakapalli and Araku.

Nasheman News : Karnataka Chief Minister and Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) leader H.D. Kumaraswamy on Monday offered his support to his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee in her protest against the CBI.

“What happened in West Bengal is an attack on a state’s federal rights guaranteed by our Constitution. We stand with West Bengal CM,” Kumaraswamy tweeted.

Banerjee has been staging a protest against the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in Kolkata since Sunday against its attempt to question Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar in connection with a Ponzi scheme case.

JD-S chief H.D. Deve Gowda called the CBI’s methods “unconstitutional” and alleged that similar situations were faced during the Emergency days (1975-77).

“I am shocked on learning about the CBI rushing to arrest the Police Commissioner and subsequent developments in West Bengal. The country has faced similar kind of unconstitutional methods during the Emergency.

“The situation in West Bengal is similar to that of the Emergency days,” Gowda tweeted.

MNS chief Raj Thackeray paid a visit to social activist Anna Hazare whose fast entered the sixth day on Monday and asked him to break the fast and instead, work to “bury the BJP government” in 2019.

Speaking with mediapersons after his meeting with Hazare, Thackeray said, “BJP doesn’t care if he lives or dies. I told him not to risk his life for these useless people. I told him, ‘Let’s go to people to bury them in the upcoming election.’ BJP used people and then dumped them. Prime Minister Modi is a liar. He’s the biggest such liar to acquire PM’s post. In December 2013, he had supported Lokpal. Now he is in power, but doesn’t do anything,” said Thackeray.

Thackeray also attacked Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal saying like Modi, Kejriwal too used Anna and now doesn’t bother to check how he’s doing. “People didn’t know how he (Kejriwal) looked before Anna agitation. Now he doesn’t bother to pay a visit and see how he’s doing. Both Kejriwal and Modi used Anna and dumped him.” said Thackeray.

Hazare, who is staging a hunger strike at his village Ralegan Siddhi over non-appointment of Lokpal by the central government, said BJP came to power “using Lokpal agitation” and now seems to have developed an “allergy” for Lokpal.

Talking to the media after Thackeray’s visit, Hazare said that he had received a communication from BJP that a Union minister was planning to visit him and discuss issues. But the activist refused instead asking the BJP interlocutor to clear the government’s stance on Lokpal appointment and other demands such as increasing support prices of farm produce.

“What’s the use of coming here and meeting me when nothing is being done to appoint Lokpal? It only sends a wrong signal to people. I have asked them to clear their stance on Lokpal first,” said Hazare, who did not name the Union minister who had contacted him through an emissary. He said that he was willing to continue his fast and was confident that he can fast for five more days.

He said that the BJP governments at the centre and the state “misled” him for last years by making promises and not fulfilling them.

“The entire country knows how they (BJP) came to power. During the Lokpal and Lokayukta agitation, people of the country stood up. Based on that anger, you came to power and now you have betrayed the movement. People have seen that those in power now such as Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj were speaking in the parliament in support of Lokpal in December 2013. Now they have developed an allergy for Lokpal,” said Hazare.

Agencies

Nasheman News :In wake of Union Minister Nitin Gadkari’s recent remarks perceived as against his partys top leadership, Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Monday urged him to also comment on the “Rafale scam” and the agrarian crisis, saying he was the only BJP leader with “some guts”.

“Gadkari Ji, compliments! You are the only one in the BJP with some guts.

“Please also comment on: The Rafale Scam & Anil Ambani, Farmers’ Distress and Destruction of Institutions,” tweeted Gandhi tagging a media report on Gadkari telling party workers that “one who can not take care of his home, can not manage the country”.

Gandhi and the Congress have been terming the deal to purchase Rafale fighters from France to be the “biggest defence scam”. 

Interacting with BJP workers in Nagpur, Gadkari on Saturday had asked them to pay attention to their domestic responsibilities.

“…One who can not manage his home can not manage the country,” he had said, a statement which some had seen to be directed at Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Following the BJP’s defeat in the Assembly polls to the Hindi heartland of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh in December, Gadakri then had remarked that the leadership should own up to failures.

Nasheman News : A war of words has broken out between the CPI-M and the Nair Service Society (NSS) — the socio-cultural arm of the Hindu Nair community, with each threatening the other.

Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) state secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan on Monday told reporters: “Socio-cultural organisations need not dabble in politics. 

“If the NSS wants, let them form a political party. They had one before and it was wound up. If they want to dabble in politics, let them take an open stand. They should openly state whether they are supporting the BJP or the Congress.”

He also accused NSS General Secretary G. Sukumaran Nair of “shadow boxing”. “What he ought to do is take an open stand. NSS need not threaten the CPI-M,” said Balakrishnan.

The Left leader’s comments came a day after Nair’s, when the NSS leader said that it does not have to learn the principles of renaissance from the CPI-M.

The Hindu Nair community which forms a large portion of the Kerala population has been unhappy with the way Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan tried to implement the Sabarimala verdict of the Supreme Court allowing women of all age groups to enter the temple.

Matters came to a head after the NSS took part in the ‘Ayyappa Jyothi’ event but did not join the “Women’s Wall” event organised by the Vijayan government as part of its efforts to uphold the Renaissance Movement in the state.