‘Not publicity hungry but performance-driven PM needed’: N. Chandrababu Naidu

Kolkata: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday termed Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the “publicity Prime Minister” and said the nation needs a new Prime Minister who can perform. “This Prime Minister is a publicity Prime Minister, not a performing Prime Minister. He and his government have betrayed the nation. “The country wants a performing Prime Minister, someone who would work for the betterment of the poor,” Naidu said here at Mamata Banerjee’s united opposition rally.

Accusing the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre of trying to divide the nation, the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief said the opposition forces were getting united to save the democracy and urged people to carefully choose who they like to go with in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. “Today is a historic day. The BJP and NDA want to divide India and we want to unite India. That is the purpose all the leaders have come here with one voice — Save India, save democracy and also unite India — that is the campaign we are going ahead with,” Naidu said. “Do you want Modi and Shah to come back in power (after 2019)? Do you want change or not?” he asked the massive crowd at the rally.

Hailing West Bengal Chief Minister Banerjee’s efforts to bring senior opposition leaders from across the country on one stage, Naidu said he would like to hold a similar opposition rally in Andhra Pradesh’s Amaravati and invited all the leaders present on the stage at the Brigade Parade Ground. “We want to organise another rally like this in Amaravati. I invite all the leaders there,” he said.

He criticized a number of central government policies, including the demonitisation move, GST, agricultural policies and fuel price hike, claiming current regime has only given a “high performance in corruption”. He further accused the Centre of interfering with the federal set-up and harassing the states run by opposition parties’ governments. He said the entire country’s mood is to have a new Prime Minister in 2019. (IANS)

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