Refuting Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu's comments on Sunday night, Kapu Garjana leader and former minister Mudragada Padmanabham said that Naidu alone was responsible for
the flare-up.
He alleged that rowdy elements were specially coached and brought in to create violence at the meet.
Talking to mediapersons at his Kirlampudi residence in the East Godavari district, Mudragada said that he suspected there would be more such planned violence in the days to come to defame the Kapus.
He said that he and his wife would launch an indefinite hunger strike on February 5 if their demands for a GO announcing reservations were not met, and that if they got arrested, they would continue the fast in the prison.
He called upon the people not to come to Kirlampudi, but to stage peaceful protests locally.
"I want to benefit my community before I die," he said.
Mudragada also refuted Naidu's allegation that he had sold himself to a political party.
"I had agitated in the past against the Congress. Did Naidu buy me then? If so, let him reveal how much he bought me for," he said.
He said that the TDP government was following a "use-and-throw" system while dealing with the Kapus.
"The government has money for foreign tours, chartered flights and crores to spend on the Pattiseema project and the Amaravati inaugural. But it has no money for Kapus," he alleged.