PNS|Vijayawada
TDP chief Nara Chandrababu Naidu, on Wednesday, gave a call to the people to join the fight to ‘save the State from the atrocities and destruction of the YSRCP’. In an open letter to the people of AP, Naidu said that the atrocities of the ruling YSRCP were increasing by the day and that the dictatorial attitude of Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy was turning out to be a major setback to democracy. “The State government is resorting to violent activities, filing false cases and indecent attacks on the Opposition party leaders for questioning the anti-democratic tendencies of the ruling dispensation,” Naidu said.
“The Gannavaram incident is the latest and classic example of this,” the TDP chief said, adding that the TDP leaders were subjected to severe torture at Gannavaram and their properties were completely destroyed.
The affected TDP leaders were projected as the prime accused and sent to jail, he said and stated that he was writing the open letter only to bring the facts to the notice of the public.
He felt that the Gannavaram violence was only aimed at suppressing the voice of the downtrodden sections who questioned the failures of the State government. The local YSRCP leaders, with the cooperation of certain police officials, created total destruction on February 20 and severely damaged the TDP office there, Naidu said.
Naidu said that the local MLA had designed those attacks while his personal assistant, who was the prime accused in the Sankalpa Siddhi scam, Orupalli Ranga, took the lead in the Gannavaram violence. Ranga was the main accused in the scam in which the public had been cheated of a whopping Rs 1,100 crore, Chandrababu stated. “In the whole episode, it is the TDP that suffered a lot. It is ultimately the people who will be the victims if they do not come forward to save the State and the future generations,” Naidu said.
