Revenue Minister N Raghuveera Reddy on Wednesday asked Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu to clarify why he was apologising to people during his Vastunna Mee Kosam padayatra.
Talking to reporters at the Congress Legislature Party office, Raghuveera Reddy said Naidu should clarify whether he was feeling apologetic for betraying NTR, diluting NTR's welfare schemes and ignoring the welfare of farmers, or for the non-implementation of the promises that he had made to the people.
Stating that people have gotten "fed up" with the statements of leaders like Naidu, he advised the TDP chief not to "bring disrespect" to the concept of the padayatra, which, he said, which was pioneered by Mahatma Gandhi.
When asked about his opinion on the padayatra launched by former chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy before the 2004 elections, Raghuveera Reddy claimed that YSR had fulfilled all the promises that he had made during his padayatra, and that those welfare schemes were still being implemented by the Congress government.
He refused to comment on the padayatra being launched by YSR's daughter and YSR Congress party leader Sharmila. He said the motives of Sharmila's padayatra were still not clear, and that he would react on the same at a later stage. (INN)