The YSRC claims that the state bandh called by the party in protest against the power crisis in AP was a big success.
The YSR Congress party thanked the people of the state for participating in the state bandh and making it successful.
Addressing a media conference at the party office on Friday, YSRCLP deputy leader Sobha Nagi Reddy claimed that the state bandh called by the party in protest against the power crisis in AP was a big success.
"The bandh was peaceful and successful except for a few stray incidents," she declared, adding that people have voluntarily responded to the bandh call despite the combined efforts of the Congress and TDP leaders to fizzle it out.
Sobha Nagi Reddy charged that the police, on the instructions of the government, took several YSRCP leaders into preventive custody on the eve of the bandh, and that they put some leaders under house arrest to ensure that the bandh would not succeed.
Criticizing the police for resorting to lathi charges to scare away YSRCP activists at several places, Sobha Nagi Reddy called the police action undemocratic and brutal.
She said that all sections of people, including farmers, students, workers, industrialists and businessmen, had voluntarily supported the bandh call as they have been adversely affected by the power crisis.
Alleging that the TDP had joined hands with the Congress to scuttle the bandh, she said it was once again proved that the TDP has been in collusion with the Congress.
"Our leader is in jail, but we proved through this bandh that ours is the only party that comes forward to take up people's problems," she declared.
She asked the government to respond to AP's power crisis by taking strong measures at least now.
"The Assembly also should be convened to discuss the issue," she demanded.
She said that the power crisis has been one of the serious problems faced by the people, and that the situation has not improved even 10 days after the CM's trip to Delhi.
"The CM has taken several preventive measures to foil the bandh. The power crisis would not have been there if the CM had taken such preventive measures long ago," she remarked.
Referring to the forcible arrest of party worker Padma Priya (convenor of the party's Srikakulam chapter and wife of party MLA Dharmana Krishna Das) in Srikakulam on the occasion of the bandh, Sobha Nagi Reddy described the police behavior as highhanded and undemocratic.
"Krishna Das has complained to the police, and will lodge a complaint with the speaker about the police's rough behavior. The party will also ask the Privileges committee to look into the issue," she said.
Answering a question, she said that YSRCP is ready to express its solidarity with Left parties for their proposed bandh over the power crisis. (INN)