Team News Riveting
Hyderabad, November 19
Telugu Desam President N Chandrababu Naidu on Friday burst into tears and vowed to step into the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly again only after returning to power.
“Till then, we will go to the people and sort it out,” he told a press conference at the TDP headquarters here.
The former Chief Minister, who hitherto had rarely shown any emotions overtly, broke down while talking to media and sobbed for a while, alleging that the ruling YSR Congress had been humiliating him no end. “For the last two and a half years, I have been bearing the insults but remained calm. Today, they have even targeted my wife. I always lived with honour and for honour. I cannot take it anymore,” Naidu said.
On the second day of the ongoing Assembly session, the Leader of the Opposition said in the House that he was pained by the continuous humiliation he has faced from the ruling YSR Congress members. Though he continued to speak, Speaker Tammineni Seetaram cut the mike even as the ruling party members called Naidu’s remarks a “drama”.
“I have never been this humiliated in my political career. In the past two-and-a-half years, since the YSRCP government came to power, we have been insulted in many ways. Our party leaders and workers have been harassed and jailed, financially and politically we have been humiliated, and we tolerated,” he said. “In the Assembly today, they dragged even my wife into these dirty politics and resorted to character assassination,” he alleged.
Naidu vented his fury after an acrimonious exchange of words between the two sides in the House during discussion on the farming sector. Later, he held an impromptu meeting with his party legislators in his chamber, where he reportedly broke down. The stunned TDP legislators consoled Naidu after which they all came back into the House. Naidu then announced his decision to stay away from the House “till he return to power”.
