By SNV Sudhir
Rao said there was no truth in Balaraju’s claim that he was
not invited for the chief minister’s programme. The tribal welfare minister was
informed and invited four days in advance to the Rachchabanda programme in
Chodavaram.
Bickering in the Congress in Visakhapatnam district came to the fore again
with Balaraju’s diatribe against the chief minister for allegedly favouring his
arch rival, ports and infrastructure minister Ganta Srinivasa Rao.
Though Balaraju has not taken Ganta Srinivasa Rao’s name at
the press conference held at Hyderabad on Monday, wherein he charged the chief
minister with ‘ill-treatment’ and ‘discrimination’ against him, it is seen as
indirect reference to the proximity Rao and Reddy enjoy.
“There is no truth in his (Balaraju’s) claims that he was
not informed or invited for Rachchabanda programme held at Chodavaram. I
was told by the district officials that the minister was informed in advance
about the programme,” Ganta Srinivas Rao told media persons here on Tuesday.
Rivalry between the two state cabinet ministers, hailing
from Vizag, was exposed very recently, on November 8, when both of them
held review meetings separately with the district officials on the same
subject.
Rao and Balaraju never see eye to eye. It is rare to see
them together at any programme. Balaraju had even skipped Chief Minister N.
Kiran Kumar Reddy’s programmes in the district last month twice.
The minister was also absent from Rachabanda programme in
Chodavaram on November 15, in which Rao was seen taking part actively. Both
had differed on many issues from merger of Bheemili and Anakapalle
municipalities.
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