Prime Minister Narendra Modi is targeting him out of "frustration", Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu said in Amaravati on Monday, hitting back at Modi who accused him of pushing the state into "sunset" just to see his "son rise".


The prime minister's Sunday's dig was seen as targeting Naidu over the growing prominence of his son Nara Lokesh in the ruling establishment as also a mock reference to the state's tagline 'Sunrise AP'.


Modi also said Naidu had "backstabbed" his father-in- law and TDP founder N T Rama Rao not once but twice by "bending his head" before the Congress to save his chair.


"Today, those in power in AP are so desperate to save their power that they betrayed the Telugu interests and stabbed NTR in the back for the second time," Modi had said while interacting with BJP workers from five Lok Sabha seats through a video conference. -- PTI