Talking to reporters, Lakshmi Parvathi demanded that Telugu Desam Party (TDP) president N Chandrababu apologise to the people of the state for agreeing to its division.

She said Naidu, by supporting the division of the state,  had hurt the sentiments of the people. She recalled that TDP founder NTR always stood for a united state of all Telugu-speaking people.

Lakshmi Parvathi who went into political oblivion after the death of NTR in 1996, alleged that Tamil Nadu was behind the conspiracy to divide Andhra Pradesh. “They want to settle scores with Andhra for walking out of then Madras state,” she said.