Nara Lokesh objects to YSRCP colours on police vehicles

Amaravati: TDP national general secretary and former Minister N Lokesh on Monday strongly objected to some police vehicles changing into YSRCP colours without any regard for the rules and propriety in day-to-day governance in the State.

Lokesh termed it as yet another betrayal of the people to give the ruling party colours to the vehicles in the name of the Disha Act that could not be used to save women from atrocities till now. Some overenthusiastic police were crossing all limits and they might even go to the extent of changing uniforms into YSRCP colours in future, he opined.

In a statement here, Lokesh asserted that instead of wasting their time and energy on such unwelcome activities, the police should focus on their basic duty to protect the people. The ruling party has been adopting such distasteful and unwholesome activities despite strong objectons from the public. The government suffered setbacks with respect to the colours on the panchayat offices but it was not changing its habits.

Referring to the ghastly murder of a physically challenged woman in Ongole, Lokesh deplored that Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy had not responded till now. Lack of prompt and proper action from the government side was giving rise to serious consequences. The atrocities on women and girls were on the rise ever since the YSRCP came to power by making empty promises to all sections of society.

The TDP leader pointed out that in the past 18 months of Jagan Reddy misrule, over 310 atrocities took place on women. The government should order a detailed probe into the murder of Ongole woman volunteer, he demanded. Exemplary punishment should be given to the culprits so that such incidents do not recur anywhere in the State.