Stating that the Kapu issue would be solved by the TDP government, TDP senior leader Gali Muddukrishnama Naidu today urged ex-minister and Kapu leader Mudragada Padmanabham to end his hunger strike for BC status to the community.
Speaking to the media, Naidu alleged that YSR Congress Party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy was creating problems for the development of the new State of Andhra Pradesh. Taking a dig at YSRCP and AP Congress leaders, the TDP leader said that Botsa Satyanarayana and Kanna Lakshminarayana were ministers in united Andhra Pradesh while Pallam Raju and Chiranjeevi were Union ministers in the previous dispensations, but did not bother about reservation for the Kapu community then. Why they did not take up the issue during their ministerships, he asked.
He also alleged that Jagan had goons come in from the Kadapa district and indulge in arson and violence disrupting railway traffic for 2 to 3 days, during the Kapu incidents in January.
Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu was making sincere efforts to do justice to the Kapu community without affecting the interests of other BC communities, Muddukrishnama Naidu said, adding that it was the TDP government that had set up a commission to look into reservations for Kapus, in which three ministers belonging to the Kapu community and three from BC communities were members.
Muddukrishnama Naidu urged the people to extend full support to Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu who was relentlessly working for 18 to 20 hours a day for the development of Andhra Pradesh which had a deficit budget.
Reiterating that the issue of reservation for Kapus would be solved by the TDP government, Muddukrishnama Naidu urged Padmanabham to call off his hunger strike.