Tadepalli, Nov 15: YSRCP SC Cell State President and former MLA TJR Sudhakar Babu challenged the TDP-led coalition to win the Gram Panchayat elections without violence, intimidation or misuse of police machinery. Addressing the media at the YSRCP central office, he said Chandrababu Naidu had turned Andhra Pradesh into “South Bihar” through electoral malpractices, coercion, inducements and auctioning of local body positions.
He questioned why the Chief Minister was personally interfering in village-level Sarpanch elections and demanded free and fair polls. He said the coalition had failed to fulfil its Super Six and Super Seven promises, while the previous YS Jagan government implemented Navaratnalu and 38 welfare schemes. Unable to face the people’s verdict, the coalition was preventing opposition candidates from filing nominations, he charged.
Sudhakar Babu demanded the immediate dismissal of Minister Ramprasad Reddy over incidents in Rayachoti and Konampeta, where he said YSRCP candidates were threatened and nomination papers from four villages were torn. He demanded preservation of CCTV footage, a comprehensive investigation and legal action against those responsible.
He also cited nomination papers being torn in Srikalahasti in the presence of police, and the overnight detention of YSRCP leaders Satyanarayana Reddy and Chanchi Reddy, along with TDP’s Swami Reddy, in Palapadu, Palnadu district, without clear reasons.
He condemned attacks, kidnappings, intimidation and police interference aimed at forcing opposition candidates out of elections. Urging YSRCP candidates not to surrender to threats, he assured them of the party’s support under YS Jagan Mohan Reddy’s leadership.
He called upon intellectuals, lawyers, civil society organisations and democratic forces to question these violations, stressing that governments are temporary, but the people’s verdict is supreme.
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