State Sponsoring Violence: YSR Congress Party

Describing the death of party leader Bhaskar Reddy in Giddaluru of the Prakasam district as a state-sponsored murder, the YSR Congress said that the TDP was resorting to vindictive politics, and that it (the YSR Congress) will represent the matter to he Governor seeking his intervention.

"The vindictive nature of the TDP government has come to the fore with the suspension of a Sub-Inspector in the Krishna district for arresting a TDP worker following a complaint by the YSR Congress cadre, while in Giddalur our party leader was mercilessly beaten up by the police resulting in his death. It is state-sponsored violence," party spokesperson Vasireddy Padma told reporters on Monday.

"Our Party President Y S Jaganmohan Reddy said on the floor of the Assembly that YSRCP leaders and cadre were being targeted by the TDP with the help of the official machinery, as there were 17 murders of our party workers and more than 110 persons were injured, 40 of them seriously, after the TDP took over the reins of the State," she alleged.

The new state has become a police raj, and Chandrababu Naidu, instead of condemning the incidents, seemed to be encouraging the elimination of political adversaries, given that no action has been taken so far on the concerned police officers despite Y S Jaganmohan Reddy highlighting in the State Assembly the witch-hunt of the YSRCP workers for not voting in favour of the TDP, she said.

"The bloody history of the new State will not go well with the people, as they are already disgusted with the failure of government on all fronts. Farmers are worried about the Kharif season and the loan waiver, and Naidu, instead of developing the State into another Singapore, is making it strife-torn," she said.

The pattern of discrimination and bias had been the same when Chandrababu Naidu was the Chief Minister on a previous occasion, with ration cards, houses and other benefits going only to the TDP cadre, Padma alleged.

The Chief Minister's words and deeds had sent a clear signal to the official machinery of the discrimination he has in mind, as the YSRCP leader was beaten up at Giddaluru when he went to police station for talks. There were no case and no FIR after he was badly beaten up and died due to injuries and trauma, she bemoaned.

"We will apprise the Governor E S L Narasimhan of the situation prevailing in the State and the state-sponsored violence targeting political adversaries," she said, adding that such incidents were a blot on democracy. (INN)