YSR Congress Party condemned the reported statement of Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu in Nandyal two days ago on cutting of ration and pensions to the poor if they failed to vote for the TDP in the bypoll.
Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, YSRCP city convener and former MLA Rowthu Suryaprakasha Rao questioned how a Chief Minister could threaten voters. He said that no Chief Minister would talk like this in the country and added that Mr. Naidu seemed to have lost his mental balance fearing that that the TDP would lose bypoll.
Mr. Suryaprakasha Rao asked whether Mr. Naidu, who always claims that he had laid roads in Hyderabad and constructed Hitech city, dare to ask Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao or his son K. Tarakarama Rao not to walk on the roads of the city.
Mr. Suryaprakasha Rao alleged that the Chief Minister also made a statement that he can purchase a vote for ₹5,000 making mockery of democracy and added that a suo mutu case should be booked on the statement.
YSRCP leaders M. Sharmila Reddy, Polu Vijayalakshmi, K. Sagar and others participated.
TDP rebuts allegations
TDP MLC Adireddy Apparao condemned the statement of Mr. Suryaprakasha Rao in a separate press conference on Saturday. He said that except in YSRCP president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy’s own media, the Chief Minister’s Nandyal tour was covered well and his statements were not distorted. He said that Chief Minister had asked locals whether ration, pension, roads were given by his government or others in Nandyal. And the Chief Minister also asked the public not to sell their vote for ₹500 or ₹1,000 and exercise their vote without fear, Mr. Apparao added.
TDP leaders Adireddy Vasu, Innamuri Rambabu, Runkani Venkateswara Rao and others participated.
