Rahul visits Naidu before leaving for roadshow in UP with sister Priyanka

Tribune News Service 
New Delhi, February 11

Congress president Rahul Gandhi visited the site of Chandrababu Naidu’s fast on Monday before proceeding to Lucknow for the roadshow with his sister and AICC General Secretaries for UP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Jyotiraditya Scindia.

Expressing support for Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Rahul alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had stolen from the people of the state and given the money to industrialist Anil Ambani.

The TDP president is on a fast here demanding that the Centre fulfil all promises made during Andhra Pradesh's bifurcation in 2014 and alleging that the prime minister was not following 'raj dharma' by denying the state special status.

  "The prime minister has stolen from the people from Andhra Pradesh and he has given that money to Anil Ambani. That is the fact of the matter," Gandhi said at the venue of the hunger strike in Andhra Bhavan.

The government and Ambani have rejected Gandhi's allegations of corruption in the Rafale fighter jet deal with France.

"Mr Narendra Modi, wherever he goes, he goes to Andhra Pradesh, he lies about special status. He goes to the North-East, he tells another lie over there. He goes to Maharashtra and he tells another lie over there. He has absolutely got no credibility left," Gandhi said. With PTI inputs