TDP blames Jagan Reddy ‘Taliban rule’ in AP
TDP leaders attacked with stones and sticks
‘YCP goondas came with stones and sticks’
AMARAVATI: The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leaders on Friday condemned the attack with ‘stones and sticks’ by the ruling YSRCP leaders on the residence of TDP National President and former Chief Minister N. Chandrababu at Undavalli in Amaravati Capital City.
The TDP accused Chief Minister Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy of turning Andhra Pradesh into ‘Afghanistan’ even as the ruling YSRCP goondas were behaving like the Taliban. The factionist CM was responsible for the latest attempt to lay siege to the house of Opposition Leader Chandrababu Naidu, who had also served as Chief Minister for 14 years and who was in Z plus category security.
In a statement here, TDP State President K. Atchannaidu termed as ‘atrocious and brazen’ the attempt made by the YSRCP gangs to barge into Mr. Naidu’s house. CM Jagan Reddy was encouraging all these attacks on the opposition leaders by keeping the police under his iron grip. The factionist regime had destroyed the whole State in every way possible in the past two and half years. Was it a crime to raise voice against the misdeeds of the Government? How can the ruling party leaders attack everyone just for questioning about people’s problems?
Mr. Atchannaidu demanded that the AP police immediately arrest YSRCP MLA Jogi Ramesh for masterminding and personally leading the latest attack on Naidu’s house. The TDP would take up State-wide agitation if action was not taken against the goondas responsible for the stone pelting at the former Chief Minister’s house. The YSRCP goondas had physically attacked and pelted stones on the TDP activists and leaders who tried to prevent them from storming into Mr. Naidu’s residence.
The TDP leaders termed it as a murder of democracy that the ruling YSRCP leaders attempted to pelt stones on Mr. Chandrababu Naidu’s house. The police were just watching the attack like silent spectactors and they did not make any attempt to stop the YSRCP MLA and others from coming nearer to Mr. Naidu’s house. Even though the goondas were pelting stones on the TDP leaders, the police did try to prevent them. On the other hand, the police were manhandling the TDP leaders, who were the victims of the attack.
The TDP said that from yesterday itself, the ruling YSRCP was making threats that they would launch attacks on the TDP leaders. But, the police had failed to take preventive action nor did they try to restrain the YSRCP leaders at the spot. The AP police were behaving very unreasonably.
The TDP leaders said that in the past, the police stopped the opposition leaders and public from coming out of their houses when they tried to hold protests over public issues like attacks on Dalits, temples and so on. Whereas, no action was being taken to prevent the ruling party leaders from launching attacks out of political vengeance.
