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‘I enjoy more credibility than Congress leaders'

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Telugu Desam chief Chandrababu Naidu compares himself with Karunanidhi and Farooq Abdullah

HYDERABAD: Telugu Desam Party president N. Chandrababu Naidu on Wednesday said he enjoyed more credibility than many of the Congress leaders.

In an informal interaction with media persons in his chambers in the Assembly, Mr. Naidu said if he had no credibility he would not have ruled for a long period and compared himself with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi and former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Farooq Abdullah.

Takes dig at YSR

Taking a dig at former Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, the Telugu Desam Party president wondered if credibility meant indulging in corruption and then couch, it in schemes for people. “Should credibility be seen in isolation to a person's character, morality, vision, discipline and administrative capacity?” he asked referring to an article in a Telugu vernacular daily. When a reporter asked him how he would react to Congress' claim that it won in 2009 Assembly elections because of its schemes, he wondered why that party got more Lok Sabha seats than in Assembly constituencies. “Does it mean Centre implemented more schemes?” he asked.

Faults media analysis

Finding fault with media analysis on politicians' credibility, he referred to how All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary Rahul Gandhi was praised sky high by media on his “successful experiment” in Uttar Pradesh of Congress going alone and dumped him when it lost miserably in Bihar.

Ridicules Kiran

He ridiculed Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy's poor knowledge of agriculture, while referring to his comments in Amalapuram recently.

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