*Pawan Kalyan must apologize to Kapus for insulting the Community: YSRCP Kapu Leaders*

Kakinada, June 22: YSRCP Kapu leaders demanded that Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan immediately withdraw his remarks and apologize to the Kapu community for comparing Kapu leaders to dogs and using derogatory language against senior Kapu leaders. Addressing the media at the party office in Kakinada, former ministers Kurasala Kannababu and Dadisetti Raja, former MP Vanga Geetha, along with YSRCP Assembly coordinators from the Kakinada Parliamentary constituency, said Pawan Kalyan has become a tool in Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu’s diversion politics and is being used to distract public attention from critical issues confronting the state.

The leaders said the coalition government has no answers for a series of custodial deaths, missing bodies, growing law and order failures, and allegations surrounding DSC irregularities. Unable to respond to these issues, Chandrababu Naidu has deployed Pawan Kalyan to divert the debate through abusive language and personal attacks on YS Jagan Mohan Reddy and YSRCP leaders. They said insulting leaders such as Botsa Satyanarayana, Mudragada Padmanabham, Thota Trimurtulu and Vanga Geetha amounts to insulting the entire Kapu community.

YSRCP leaders questioned why Kapus in YSRCP are branded as rowdies while those in TDP and Jana Sena are portrayed as respectable figures. They said Chandrababu Naidu has historically attempted to portray Kapu leaders, from Vangaveeti Ranga onwards, as anti-social elements and is now using Pawan Kalyan to weaken the community from within.

They also questioned Pawan Kalyan’s silence on unfulfilled promises made to Kapus, including Kapu reservations, Kapu Nestham and annual allocations to the Kapu Corporation. The leaders warned that YSRCP would not remain silent if personal attacks against YS Jagan Mohan Reddy continue and asserted that the party would continue fighting until justice is delivered to Kapus and all marginalized communities in Andhra Pradesh.