Launching a scathing attack on state minister Peddireddy Ramachandra Reddy for allegedly instigating violence during his tours of Annamayya and Chittoor districts, Telugu Desam Pary Supremo Nara Chandrababu Naidu claimed that he too was a ’son of the soil’ and will not be intimidated by such acts of aggression from the YSR Congress Party.
Addressing a gathering during his roadshows in Thamballapalle and Punganur constituencies in the erstwhile Chittoor district on Friday, Naidu said he will never forget the destruction caused by the YSRC in Angallu and Punganur.He held Peddireddy and the police wing responsible for the devastation on Friday.
“As a leader of the opposition party, I have been undertaking a state-wide tour of all the ruined irrigation projects.I had already visited Pulivendula and this land is nothing for him.Being born in the same district, I will not tolerate the use of muscle power and police force against the opposition parties,” he said.
Minister Peddireddy Ramachandra Reddy has accused Chandrababu Naidu of instigating TDP cadres to indulge in violence and orchestrating attacks on the YSRCP workers and police.
Responding to the clashes between the ruling and opposition workers on Friday, Peddireddy said that Naidu’s provocative statements had incited his rowdy mobs, some of them carrying guns in their cars, to descend upon Punganur.
The TDP, in a well-planned manner, attacked the YSRCP activists and the police and damaged the police vehicles, he added.
