New Delhi,
While majority of non-NDA chief ministers are expected to attend Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Wednesday meeting of a national committee on Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary celebrations, it seems Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu and his Telangana counterpart K Chandrasekhar Rao have decided to give it a miss.

TDP sources say Naidu has decided to “boycott” the meeting being chaired by PM Modi as he does not want to come face to face with someone who “betrayed his state” by going back on promises, including on according special category status to it.

As far as KCR is concerned, sources close to his party (TRS) say Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav is scheduled to meet him in Hyderabad, apparently to discuss issues related to formation of the proposed anti-BJP, anti-Congress front.

“His programme (meeting with Yadav) was decided much in advance,” said a source.

Other non-NDA CMs, including West Bengal’s Mamata Banerjee and Odisha’s Naveen Patnaik, will attend the meeting of the national committee set up to commemorate Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary.

The BJP and the Trinamool Congress are also engaged in a bitter political battle in West Bengal. However, TDP sources say Andhra issues are “very different”. Naidu attending the meeting would send a “wrong message in the state, where people are angry about the treatment meted to the state by the Centre”, they say.