TDP Misusing Official Machinery: YSR Congress

Charging the TDP government with misuse of official machinery to win over numbers in the civic body elections, the YSR Congress has said that while it boasts that it could get seats despite not implementing its poll promises, in reality people are vexed with the policies of the ruling party.

"The TDP has been misusing money and official machinery, and is trying every trick in the book to lure the municipal corporators and ward members, and is engineering defections, all at the behest of Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu," party official spokesperson Vasireddy Padma told reporters on Thursday.

At Jammalamadugu, where the YSRCP has an absolute majority, the election was postponed though there was quorum, which showed the gross misuse of official machinery by the TDP, she said. At Chirala, MLA Amanchi Krishna Mohan was attacked as he supported the YSR Congress Party.

At all places, the members were being lured, coerced, kidnapped or threatened to get the numbers to win the top spot in the civic body polls, she alleged. The party had already complained locally, and had taken up the issue with the State Election Commission, but there was no tangible result, she said.

The TDP had been mobilizing all its forces as if the stakes were high, as it did not move even an inch towards fulfilling its poll promises, she claimed. "This is only to show off that they are getting numbers even without implementing the poll promises, but the people will react at an opportune time in an appropriate manner. Such victory has no sanctity," she said.

"We have issued a whip, and action will be taken after due consideration," she said, adding that the TDP had spent money heavily in these elections, and that the way the polls were held was a blot on democracy. (INN)