'Naidu Is Making Harikrishna A Scapegoat'

Is Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu making his brother-in-law Nandamuri Harikrishna a scapegoat in his attack on the Telangana Rashtra Samithi?

The answer is yes, according to former Congress minister T Jeevan Reddy. Surprisingly, Jeevan Reddy came to the defense of TRS president K Chandrasekhara Rao, saying it was Naidu who had ditched the Congress which had given him political life. “If KCR has betrayed the TDP, what did Naidu do? He, too, had grown politically in the Congress party,” Jeevan Reddy pointed out.

He accused Naidu of using Harikrishna to attack the TRS, thereby projecting his brother-in-law as a villain in the eyes of Telangana people. “Naidu knows how to utilize the people. He has made Harikrishna a scapegoat,” he said, adding that the TDP can very well be described as “Telangana Drohula Party.”

TRS legislator T Harish Rao also lashed out at Harikrishna saying the people had not forgotten how he had betrayed his own father N T Rama Rao by joining hands with Naidu in dethroning the TDP patriarch. “Where was he hiding, when the TDP legislators were throwing chappals at his father?” Harish Rao asked.