Hyderabad: Unable to face the people in wake of the growing anti-incumbency factor, Chandrababau Naidu has been desperately resorting to poaching by engineering defections leaving the growing number of suicides in private educational institutions owned by a state minister to winds.

Speaking to reporters here on Saturday party spokesperson Padmaja said, “Chandrababu Naidu is back to his old game of poaching by luring opposition party leaders with packages and his political graph has been crooked with defections and backstabbing.Right from crossing over from Congress to TDP and then usurping the power and Party from NTR, Chandrababu Naidu mindset has been on dubious all the time and this time he has done nothing different.”

The leaders willing to cross over have the freedom of shifting but moral values demand their resignation before joining the other party and our leader YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has shown the way by taking Shilpa Chakrapani Reddy into the Party fold after he quit the MLC post ahead of the full term of about six years, she said.

All sections of people are unhappy with the State and unable to face the wrath of people Chandrababu Naidu has been concentrating on engineering defections to send a false signal to people. With the talk of general elections lurking round the corner it would be suicidal to jump the line for anyone as the ruling party has gathered lot of anti-incumbency dust and money power cannot win a general election as it had happened earlier, she said.

We have seen Chandrababu Naidu’s political career which took off through defections and backstabbing and his mindset has been such and instead of taking steps to control the growing number of suicides in private educational institutions, his silence is more pronounced at shielding the guilty. Government schools are being closed down at the slightest anomaly to promote commercial interest and his anti-people policies would deliver a telling blow in the coming elections, she said.

It is very sad to note that over the past one week students and youth committing suicides have become routine and the government has not at all been giving any heed to it. Not a single arrest was made so far and the inquiry process has been rushed through as a mere formality and the futile exercise is only to shield the Municipal Administration Minister Naryana who owns the group of private educational institutions.

YSR has brought higher education within the reach of the poor through his welfare schemes like fees reimbursement and scholarships while Chandrababu Naidu’s priorities lay elsewhere like engineering defections.

A series of suicides by students in Narayana group of institutions and the associated Sri Chaitanya colleges in the Telugu states due to psychological stress has triggered a state-wide uproar.Yet, neither the Chandrababu Naidu government in AP and Chandrasekhar Rao government in Telangana has remained unmoved.Particularly in Andhra Pradesh, as many as 38 Intermediate students committed suicide owing to the pressure in academics amongst the Narayana group residential colleges in Andhra Pradesh in the last three years.

But, Naidu has not been able to do anything because they belong to the municipal administration minister P Narayana, who is his close associate.Even higher education minister Ganta Srinivasa Rao, too, cannot take any action against the Narayana group of institutions, because Narayana happens to be his “viyyankudu”.

However, with the parents raising a hue and cry over the spate of suicides and major opposition YSR Congress party calling for a bandh on October 16 protesting against the government’s inaction, Naidu is forced to react at least for the record sake.He asked Ganta to inspect the Narayana group institutions and find out the reasons for suicides.On Saturday, Ganta visited the hostel of Narayana College in Visakhapatnam and interacted with the students present at the hostel and warned all the colleges of stern action in this regard.

He tried to defend Narayana, stating that the problem is with the private hostels which are not owned by the colleges. He said there are 188 such affiliated hostels in AP and they are not related to the colleges.He said the government had called for a meeting of management of all residential colleges, hostels and parents on October 16 to hold serious discussions regarding the issue of suicides in hostels.“We will find out the solution,” the minister said.