Social activist Medha Patkar on Saturday termed BJP-TDP alliance ‘unholy’ and YSR Congress as ‘corrupt and criminal’ and appealed to the voters of Seemandhra to reject them.
Speaking to reporters after garlanding the statue of Mahatma Gandhi near GVMC, Ms. Patkar, who is in fray for Mumbai North East Lok Sabha seat, had a dig at the National Democratic Alliance’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi and YSRC president Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy.
She said Mr. Modi’s high-voltage election propaganda was being funded by corporates like Adanis and alleged that even the Ambani brothers were moving close to him. “Mr. Modi stands for crony capitalism,” she said.
Describing TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu as an ‘opportunist,’ she said he used to be the blue-eyed boy of the World Bank during his nine-year term as the Chief Minister.
Ms. Patkar said Mr. Jaganmohan Reddy was a land-grabber and known for indulging in several corrupt deals when his father late Rajasekhara Reddy was the Chief Minister.
She said AAP had fielded candidates without money and muscle power as it wanted to live up to the expectation of common man. “We want to bring some difference to the country’s polity by cleansing the system,” she said before visiting some slums in the city.
Ms. Patkar promised to regularise slums, scrap Petroleum, Chemical and Petrochemical Investment Region (PCPIR) between Visakhapatnam and Kakinada and take steps to contain industrial pollution in and around the city.
