TDP general secretary Lokesh Naidu on Thursday criticised Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy for trying to sabotage even the soft launch of the TDP's digital membership drive on Whatsapp.
He said that the Jagan Mohan Reddy government had stooped to the level of writing a four-page letter to Whatsapp to create hurdles for the TDP's paperless enrolment program.
Addressing the party membership launch meeting, Naidu asked the Chief Minister to clarify why he was trying to obstruct the TDP's digitising its reach to its activists, aimed primarily at extending support to the party's activists who were in difficulties and facing life threats from the ruling party..
Naidu asserted that the TDP cadre would not be afraid of the "cheap tricks" of the ruling party, and that nobody could shake the morale of the party as was evident from how a 70-year-old TDP activist in a village challenged the rivals to any kind of showdown recently.
Naidu also said that there was no other party in the country that was implementing welfare schemes for its activists' welfare as effectively as the TDP. He said that an accident insurance of Rs 2 lakh was being given to each party member, and that Rs 96.88 crore in insurance money was paid to the families of 4,844 activists who had died in accidents in the past eight years.
The party was also taking care of education for over 1,250 students at the NTR Model School, and for 1,500 students in other schools.
Immediate legal support was also being provided to the party activists being targeted by the YSRCP and the police, and over Rs 7 crore had been spent towards the legal costs on this so far, he said. And party leaders were being sent even during the midnight hours to extend moral support to activists in trouble, he claimed.
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