Following the brutal killing of its Pathikonda constituency in-charge Cherukulapadu Narayana Reddy, the YSR Congress party has accused the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu of perpetuating factional violence.
Taking serious exception to the way the government was allegedly trying to malign the YSR Congress as a ‘party of faction leaders’, its general secretary and State spokesperson Bhumana Karunakar Reddy called it a 'cheap lie' on the part of the ruling party. “It was during Mr. Chandrababu Naidu’s regime that our beloved leader Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy’s father Y.S. Raja Reddy was murdered. Is it not a fact that the media had then held him responsible for the act?” he asked at a media conference here on Tuesday.
Jagan’s security
If the YSR family indeed had a factional and brutal background as was being projected, he wondered how Mr. Naidu could have safely ruled the State for such a long period.
Mr. Karunakar Reddy said YSRC president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy deserved Z-Plus category security as the main Opposition leader, on a par with the Chief Minister. “But the government is turning a deaf ear to our pleas.”
He criticised the Telugu Desam government for ‘keeping the Police Department in its grip and unleashing a reign of terror on the opposition’.
“Chandrababu Naidu says he has taken a vow to end factionalism, but his real intention is to wipe out the Opposition from the State’s political landscape,” he charged.
He also accused Mr. Naidu of using his party leaders and family members for his political ambitions and ditching them at the end.
