Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Monday alleged that the Centre was threatening to impose President's Rule in the state but, he said, nobody would be cowed down by such threats.
He claimed Prime Minister Narendra Modi was a "negative leader" under whose leadership the country was regressing.
Addressing a teleconference with the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leaders, he attacked the prime minister and the BJP, saying they did nothing special for Andhra.
"They say one Union minister will come to the state every week. What good have they done for the state? On top of it, they are issuing threats that President's Rule will be imposed in Andhra Pradesh. There is nobody here to be cowed down by their threats,"
Referring to the opposition parties' rally in Kolkata two days ago, the TDP chief said it marked the beginning of the end of dictatorial rule and gave confidence to the people of the country.
"We will hold a similar rally in Amaravati in which leaders of 22 parties will take part,"
The TDP chief lashed out at his Telangana counterpart K Chandrasekhar Rao and YSR Congress president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, saying they were working under Modi's direction.
He said that some allegations raised on fish supplies of AP State as using Formalin as a preservative for fish being transported to Bihar state. Baidu requested for extending support to ascertain the genuineness of the allegations and continue the support for accepting the fish imports from the StateReg.
He explained that AP has been exporting fish to Bihar State and having reciprocal trade business for a long time. The AP State Fish Farmers Association have represented that, their fish trade in Bihar state is badly affected due to some misapprehension on alleged usage of formalin in the fish supplies to Bihar State from AP and appealed the Government of Andhra Pradesh to intervene and have dialogue with Chief Minister of Bihar to restore the good fish trade relations for mutual benefit of the States.
In this context, he brought the following points to Nitish Kumar notice for examining the facts.
The aquaculture farmers and merchants are strongly denying the use of Formalin allegations stating that it is nothing but defaming the AP State fish supplies and ultimately to disturb the good fish trade relations between two states.
The Department of Fisheries and Institute of Preventive Medicine, Public (Heath) Lab and Food (Health) Administration (IPM), Govt. of AP have been conducting surprising raids on fish packing sheds and wholesale fish outlets and tested for formalin with field test kits of CIFT, Kochi to ascertain the genuineness of the allegations, but no cases of use of formalin/ Ammonia in fishery products are reported so far.
The Government constituted District Level Task Force Teams and State Level Technical and Monitoring teams consisting of Multi-disciplinary departments for ensuring the quality of fish supplies to other states
Accordingly, the District Level Task Force teams are inspecting regularly on a random basis and issuing quality certificates and affixing the authorized stickers for all checked fish conSignments.
