The YSR Congress Party today came down heavily on TDP President N Chandrababu Naidu for degenerating political values by using sacrilegious language and demeaning the democratic process by bringing in caste and creed into the orbit of electoral campaign. “Using words like demons and devils besides bringing in caste and religious issues and branding its party Chief Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy as a villain does not serve the purpose as the heinous past keeps haunting,” party Spokesperson Vasireddy Pama told reporters here.
She said by repeatedly using the phrase Jagan’s illegal assets case, Mr Naidu was trying to bring a new colour to the case that pertains to the controversial 26 GOs case and added that the barrage of foul words in describing the YSRC as a party filled with people with criminal antecedents showed the level to which the the TDP President can stoop as its polling percentage was dwindling with every passing election. The former Chief Minister had no moral right to speak on corruption and land allotments as the land for NTR Trust Bhavan was given by the Government when he was the Chief Minister and also president of TDP, Ms Padma said.
The TDP campaign, she said, was moving around saying that YSR Congress party would not get deposits, but what happened in the Kadapa and Pulivendula stood as an indicator to the things in store for Mr Naidu. Of the 18 assembly and one Lok Sabha by-polls, 16 Assembly and Nellore Lok Sabha seats belong to Congress and two seats were of PRP. “It remains to be seen as to who is scared of the by-polls and who loses the deposits,” she said. The YSR Congress leader said the past of Mr Chandrababu Naidu continued to haunt him as he has scraped the welfare schemes of NTR, and ill-treated farmers and never bothered about the common man but was always in the company of corporate giants in India and abroad which hurt the pride of State voters who turned him down on two occasions and have no reason as to why they should reverse their decision now. UNI