The TDP national general secretary Nara Lokesh on Monday said that ultimately truth prevailed and war has begun against falsity. After the Andhra Pradesh High Court granted regular bail to the former Chief Minister and TDP supremo Chandrababu Naidu, the TDP national general secretary said, “Our leader has a clean image and his integrity, individuality and ethics have all been upheld.”
Observing that Chandrababu’s statement that he will never commit any mistake nor will allow others to do so has finally come true, Lokesh said that the Crime Investigation Department (CID) which arrested and sent him to jail in the Skill Development case could not provide even a single evidence in the case.
Lokesh felt that conspiracies, deceptive politics and machinations all have crashed before the law. “It is now clear that there are no shell companies as alleged, and that ultimately, it has been proved that all this is only a conspiracy to sling mud at the political life of Chandrababu Naidu,” Lokesh said.
Earlier, the Andhra Pradesh High Court on Monday granted bail to Naidu in the skill development case. Advocate Sunkara Krishnamurthy of the Andhra Pradesh High Court told media that N. Chandrababu Naidu was on interim bail up to November 28. “The High Court of Andhra Pradesh has granted regular bail in the case.” TDP legal team advocate Siddarth Luthra made arguments on behalf of Chandrababu Naidu. TDP cadres and sympathisers expressed happiness over the court’s decision.
Earlier this month, the TDP supremo walked out of Rajahmundry jail on October 31 after the Andhra Pradesh High Court granted him interim bail in the alleged skill development case. Naidu was under 53 days of judicial custody and the interim bail was granted for 4 weeks. The former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister was arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department on September 9 in connection with the multi-crore skill development scam case, leading to political turmoil in the state with several TDP leaders alleging that the arrest was nothing but a political “witch-hunt” and that Naidu was held on the basis of false allegations. Besides, the skill development case, Naidu has been named as an accused in 2 other graft cases, the Fibernet scam case, and the Inner Ring Road scam case.
The FiberNet case relates to the alleged tender manipulation in allotting a work order under Phase-1 of the Andhra Pradesh FiberNet Project involving Rs 330 crore to a favoured company. The CID of Andhra Pradesh police has alleged irregularities in the project right from awarding the tender to completion of the work, causing a huge loss to the state exchequer.
