In a yet another shock to senior Telugu Desam Party president and former Anantapur MP J C Diwakar Reddy and his brother J C Prabhakar Reddy, a former MLA from Tadipatri, the YSR Congress party government on Monday night issued orders withdrawing complete security to them.
The decision to withdraw security to JC brothers was taken at a meeting of committee on security affairs last night. Already, the security cover given to Diwakar Reddy was reduced from two plus two policemen to one plus one in two shifts. Now, even this gunmen facility was withdrawn.
Apparently, the government has felt that there is no need for any gunmen for former MPs, MLAs and MLCs.
After reviewing the threat perception to various leaders, it was decided to drastically reduce the security cover to some and withdraw completely for others.
Last week itself, the government scaled down security cover to Nara Lokesh, TDP general secretary and MLC and son of party president N Chandrababu Naidu. Lokesh is now given only one plus one security.
It is learnt security cover has been withdrawn for former ministers Devineni Umamaheshwar Rao, Palle Raghunath Reddy and Kalwa Srinivasulu, besides Paritala Ravi’s son Paritala Ram.
The government had already seized the buses belonging to Diwakar Travels for not following the rules and cancelled the land lease given to Trishul Cements for limestone mining.
