Holding Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu directly responsible for the blatant murder of democracy in the just concluded municipal and local body chairperson elections, YSR Congress Party president YS Jagan Mohan Reddy today expressed hope that Governor ESL Narasimhan would take steps to enquire into the TDP Government’s atrocities that marked the election process and take suitable action.
Speaking to media persons outside Raj Bhavan here after leading a party delegation to the Governor and submitting memorandum on the issue, Jagan Mohan Reddy said Chandrababu’s stoic silence on the perpetration of illegalities by his party men confirmed that he was behind the pre-planned murder of democratic process during the elections.
“If he is not involved, why didn’t he condemn the undemocratic incidents?” he asked, adding that the entire government machinery was totally misused to orchestrate majority for the TDP even in places where YSRCP had clear majority.
Even district collectors and SPs went out of their way and obeyed the illegal orders of their political boss Chandrababu Naidu by remaining mute spectators to the horrifying spectacle of kidnapping, poaching, intimidating and baiting of YSRCP councilors, MPTC and ZPTC members.
“If you want to gain control of the municipal and local bodies in the most illegal way you did, why did you conduct elections first of all? That could have been done through nominations as well,” Jagan Mohan Reddy asked Chandrababu.
