TDP president and former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has claimed that candidates supported by the party posted impressive victories in the first phase of the panchayat elections by courageously fighting against the attacks, kidnappings, threats and atrocities committed by the ruling YCP with the connivance of the official and police machinery.
Naidu said that the people gave their mandate against the misrule and misdeeds of the Jaganmohan Reddy regime in the past 20 months. The verdict in the panchayat polls marked the “beginning of the end” of the YCP rule in Andhra Pradesh.
The State Election Commission and the DGP have failed to take action against the violence, misuse of cash, liquor and muscle power resorted to by the YCP leaders.
Addressing a press conference here, the TDP chief said that their party would go to the court against the election offences in Minister Peddireddy Ramachandra Reddy’s Punganur Assembly segment and also Macherla segment.
They used force, rejected nominations, prevented rival candidates and tore off nomination papers of others to ensure forced unanimous elections in 82 out of 85 sarpanch seats in Punganur and in 72 out of 77 seats in Macherla segment.