TDP playing vindictive politics
Hyderabad: Criticizing the TDP for its vindictive politics and relentless efforts to belittle the main opposition party by foisting false cases against its leaders, YSR Congress on Saturday, stated that such moves will boomerang on them and the ruling party would have to pay the price for its misdemeanors.
“Harassing the opposition leaders by misusing the police force to settle political scores is an undemocratic act and the unabated arrests of opposition leaders for political reasons is undemocratic,” party spokespers Ambati Rambabu told reporters here on Saturday.
“The arrest of P. Muthun Reddy, Ch Bhaskar Reddy and Madusudhan Reddy has been authoritarian and undemocratic as the false case was politically motivated. When our president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy had challenged the establishment to show conclusive evidence as the alleged incident took place at a high security Tirupati airport, the government had come out with very ambiguous and an inconclusive footage which conveyed nothing.”
“The footage released by the government is inconclusive and selective. It was taken from a single angle and from a single camera, with the ulterior motive of seeking the resignations of our leaders; and is ridiculous,” Rambabu said.
“From Bhuma Nagi Reddy to R.K Roja, Jakkampudi and the latest three leaders, TDP has followed a vindictive agenda of falsely implicating them and foisting false cases on them. We will fight it out but the vindictive nature of politics of TDP is certain to boomerang on them”, he said.
“TDP government has been trying to showcase 'cosmetic makeover' as development, with the health minister undergoing surgery in Guntur Government Hospital. The real catchphrase in this is that, the surgeons involved in the operation were from outside and not the government doctors of the hospital.
If this is the attitude of the government, it only reveals the duplicity of TDP and its undemocratic approach,” he said.
Ramababu also alleged that the Vice Chancellor of Central University of Hyderabad, who is in the news for discrimination towards Dalits, is close to the AP chief minister, he said.
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#WATCH | J&K | Residents of Rajouri living along the LOC have started moving to safer areas after heavy cross-border shelling and attempted drone and missile attacks last night by Pakistan.
— ANI (@ANI) May 9, 2025
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