Govt flayed for intimidating those questioning its failures

Tirupati: Former Minister and senior TDP leader N Amaranatha Reddy said that the party will extend all support to the cadre and advised them to ask the police for notice under section 41A of CRPC which states a prior notice to take clarification before arrest when they come to their homes.

Speaking to the media in Tirupati on Sunday, he lashed out at the government for intimidating those questioning the failures and filing cases against opposition leaders.

Before 2019, political strategist Prasanth Kishore resorted to false propaganda using social media to bring YSRCP into power. Now, failing to increase YSRCP's graph, they are trying to weaken the TDP but will not succeed in their efforts. He criticised that the police have been taking several TDP leaders into custody overnight with fake allegations.

To face this, the party has been engaging lawyers in all constituencies and will stand by the cadres. The police will listen to YSRCP for another year and thereafter there would be no body to follow their dictums. Amaranatha Reddy made it clear that after coming back to power, TDP will give back everything with interest and compound interests to whoever acted vindictively with them.

He criticised that the government has failed on all fronts. Irrigation projects were kept in cold storage. Industrialists are not at all looking at the State. Sand loot has been continuing singlehandedly. No job opportunities for the youth and were in deep frustration. Contractors were not coming forward to undertake even road repair works. People will teach a lesson to the YSRCP government soon for its failures.

Former Tirupati MLA M Sugunamma said that the YSRCP has been deliberately obstructing any programme planned by TDP with the help of police. She condemned the illegal arrests of party leaders. Tirupati Lok Sabha constituency president G Narasimha Yadav, former MLC BN Rajasimhulu and others also spoke.