CPI condemns poaching of lawmakers from Opposition

​Hyderabad: CPI national secretary K Narayana here on Saturday criticised Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao encouraging defections from other parties. Addressing a joint media conference along with State secretary Chada Venkata Reddy here, the CPI leaders said, “the TRS chief is resorting to unfair and undemocratic actions even after people have given him an absolute mandate in the just concluded State Assembly elections.” If the happenings are any indication, it looks like that the Chief Minister may run the Assembly from his farmhouse.”

On the decimal performance of the party, Narayana said the delay in the seat adjustments had made the Mahakutami lose its ground in the elections. Adding to this, the Election Commission also worked at the diktat of the KCR and “counted votes were more than the votes polled and thus giving credence to the earlier statements of the TRS chief that Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) are prone to tampering,” he said.

The party, he said, hoped that KCR would give democratic governance. But it turned out to be false within a few days of him assuming the office for the second term. He termed the decision of the Council Chairman in accepting the merger proposals of CLP in the Council with the TRS as unjustified.

Responding to a question, Narayana said that reasons for the party’s loss in the elections and continuation in the Mahakutami will be discussed with the CPI national leadership before taking a decision. Calling KCR behaving like a political secretary of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Venkata Reddy said that the TRS had won elections with the active cooperation of Modi.