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TDP offered Rs 40 crore for defection, says YSRCP MLA
Poothalapattu MLA and YSRCP leader Dr M Sunil Kumar revealed that the ruling TDP had offered him Rs 40 crore if he left the YSRCP and joined the Telugu Desam. He said the TDP leaders had tried to convince him for many days and had even threatened to slap false cases if he did not join the ruling TDP.
Punanur: Poothalapattu MLA and YSRCP leader Dr M Sunil Kumar revealed that the ruling TDP had offered him Rs 40 crore if he left the YSRCP and joined the Telugu Desam. He said the TDP leaders had tried to convince him for many days and had even threatened to slap false cases if he did not join the ruling TDP.
Dr M Sunil Kumar was addressing a public meeting organized in Bandameeda Challavari Palle in Rompicharla mandal in the Punganur assembly constituency on Tuesday night. He said the he would not be cowed down by threats and would remain steadfast to the YSRCP. He termed senior party MLA Peddi Ramachandra Reddy as his political guru and said he would swim or sink with him in politics.
He charged the TDP with not bothering about governance and provision of amenities to the people. Instead, it is frittering away all its energies only to engineer defections from the Opposition.
