Naidu is a frustrated backstabber: Rosaiah

The Chief Minister, Mr K. Rosaiah, on Wednesday hit out at the Telugu Desam president, Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu, calling him a “backstabber”, angry at the latter terming the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, a “sadist”.

In an unusually harsh tone, Mr Rosaiah said he had never learnt tricks like backstabbing, dumping of loyalists and even taking their lives to grab power like Mr Naidu. We all know what he did to NTR to capture power, said Mr Rosaiah. Unlike the former chief minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy, who used criticise the TD chief in the sharpest of words, Mr Rosaiah had so far been soft on Mr Naidu. On Wednesday, however, the Chief Minister was all guns blazing, provoked by Mr Naidu’s outburst against the Prime Minister.

The TD president had called Dr Singh a sadist for denying appointment to the Opposition parties during his day’s visit to city on Tuesday.

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“Does he know the meaning of the word sadist?” asked the Chief Minister. “Can the word sadist be used in this context?”

Mr Rosaiah said he had been tolerating Mr Naidu, who was frustrated at being rejected by people twice, out of sympathy. “His frustration got doubled because he lost control over party affairs also,” the Chief Minister pointed out.

In a sarcastic manner, the Chief Minister said Mr Naidu enjoyed enormous power at one time and had even claimed that the US president, Mr Bill Clinton, and the British prime minister, Mr Tony Blair, had asked him to help them manage world politics.

“Of course, Mr Naidu denied the invitation apparently because he was busy in state politics,” the Chief Minister ridiculed.