Chandrababu Has No Moral Right To Speak On Horse-Trading

Vizianagaram: YSRCP MLC and party Election Manifesto Committee Chairman, Ummareddy Venkateswarlu observed that it was ironical that Andhra Pradesh chief minister, Chandrababu Naidu spoke about defections and horse-trading at Kolkata.

Slamming Chandrababu for his hypocrisy at a senior citizens' interaction here, Ummareddy Venkateswarlu said that the TDP supremo who tried to be moralistic about horse-trading in Telangana and Karnataka should set his own house in order.

The TDP chief needed to explain to the people of AP as to how he could brazenly buy 23 MLAs elected on a YSRCP ticket, making 4 of them ministers.

Ummareddy Venkateswarlu pointed out that no one had violated Constitutional norms more openly than Chandrababu. Driven by fear, the TDP supremo was now indulging in mass deletion of names from voters' list desperate to try to cling on to power.

The senior YSRCP leader tore into Chandrababu Naidu for using such unconstitutional methods reminding him that no voter can be denied of his Constitutional right to exercise his franchise.

Ummareddy Venkateswarlu revealed that in Chittoor district alone, to try to thwart the imminent victory of YSRCP MLA Chevireddy Bhaskar Reddy in Chandragiri 22,000 voters'names considered by the TDP to be sympathetic to YSRCP have been deleted.

In their place 20,000 bogus voters' names have been added to boost the ruling party's chances there, he pointed out.

Senior YSRCP leader and former minister, Botsa Satyanarayana flayed Chandrababu and former Union minister, Ashok Gajapathi Raju for neglecting northern Andhra districts and the Rayalaseema region. They could not get funds to develop these areas due to their selfish agenda and rampant corruption, he said.