Hyderabad, May 2 -- Alleging that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi were close friends, CPI national secretary K Narayana said that it was the reason why no case was filed against Owaisi. He said that no system would work in the Old City of Hyderabad.

He made this statement during a televised interview on Wednesday, May 1.

He also found fault with chief minister A Revanth Reddy for criticising Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan during his election campaign in that state recently. Opining that criticising someone at a personal level was not right, Narayana said that if someone wanted to criticise the left, they needed to talk about politics, and not about the personal life of someone.

He said that though ...