Police to visit TDP's rehabilitation centres: Sucharita

Amaravati: After a hue and cry of the TDP on the alleged attacks by the YSRCP leaders on the party cadre in Palnadu, the state government formed a fact-finding committee on it on Monday. The committee will consist of officials from Revenue as well as Police departments, informed M Sucharita, Minister for Home, in a press conference here at Secretariat.

She informed that the police will visit the victim's rehabilitation centres established by the TDP and would find the facts and will take decisions accordingly.

The minister informed that till now the TDP did not take permission for the Chalo Atmakur in Palnadu area, which would be supposed to take on September 11. She further said that the police were staying in the villages in the nights to ensure the security and safety of the public. The department is going to appoint an Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to address the law and order problems in the region and anybody could come and lodge a complaint with the officer. The office will be located at Piduguralla, she informed.

Ridiculing TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu for his criticism on law and order in the area, Sucharita stated that there was no truth in it. She blamed that the TDP has been organizing the rehabilitation camps drama by using the paid artists. The police have registered altogether 79 complaints after the general elections in the recently, out of which 43 were lodged by TDP and the remaining by YSRCP. The police have been registering cases filed by both the parties and there was no truth in the claims of the TDP in this regard, she said.

At the same time, she claimed that there were 6 political murders and several attacks on public took place during the tenure of Chandrababu Naidu from 2014 to 2019, but not even a single such event happened in the YSRCP government. She informed more than 110 people in the area were victimised by the then TDP leaders, who were in the ruling.

She said that a person namely Gurava Reddy was beaten and threatened by the then MLA Yarapatineni Srinivasa Rao. Because Guava Reddy questioned the illegal mining of Srinivasa Rao. She further blamed that Srinivasa Rao also demanded Rs 1 crore from a mining owner.

The Minister informed that the state government is going to establish a new Commissionerate in Guntur city.

Meanwhile, the DGP Goutam Sawang informed that police imposed Section 144 across the Palnadu region in the Guntur district to ensure Law and Order and peace. He added that the police officials had already visited the villages built confidence among the public, wherever small incidents took place. The DGP appealed all political parties not to disturb the peace in the region by making false statements on Law and Order.