Sharmila throws a challenge to Naidu

Vallabhi (Khammam Dt), April 23, 2013: Castigating the TDP leaders for continuing with their Goebbels campaign that she and her husband owned the Rakshana Steels and Bayyaram mines in Khammam district, Smt. Y. S. Sharmila dared them to prove the allegations.  

Addressing a public meeting at Vallabhi village in Khammam district Monday evening, Smt. Sharmila said she would wind up her Maro Praja Prasthanam Padayatra if the allegations were proved. “Or else, will you give up all your party posts?’ she challenged TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu.  

Sharmila said despite her repeated statements clarifying that she and her husband had nothing todo with the Rakshana Steels and the Bayyaram Mines, TDP, Congress and BJP leaders have been repeatedly making the allegations to malign her family.  

“We have clarified the issue at least hundred times now. Despite this, they have been intentionally repeating the allegation with ulterior motives,” she said and asked the TDP chief to accept her challenge.  

She further said Dr.YSR only wanted the steel plant to come up at Bayyaram and gave the mining rights for the Andhra Pradesh Mining Development Corporation (APMDC) and not to Rakshana Steels.  

Smt. Sharmila also recalled that the then Mining Minister Balineni Srinivasa Reddy, who is presently with the YSRCP, had cancelled all agreements with the Rakshana Steels two and half years ago. 

The mudslinging campaign by TDP and other leaders even after years of cancellation of the deals only revealed their ill intentions, she said.  

Smt. Sharmila has so far completed walking a distance of 1730.3 km of her Padayatra as on 128^thday on Monday.