Srikakulam, March 03: Opposition leader N Chandrababu Naidu had to face some embarrassing moments at Vaddithandra, with the locals raising ‘go back’ slogans.
The TDP chief visited Vattithandra and Kakarapalli villages in Srikakulam district where people have been protesting against the setting up of a thermal power plant.
Naidu demanded that the state government pay a compensation of Rs 10 lakh each to the families of two persons killed and Rs 5 lakh each to those injured in police firing at Kakarapalli village.
Naidu blamed former chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy for permitting the establishment of the thermal power plant on fertile lands. “The government should establish who the real people behind this controversial power plant were,” he said.
Extending the Telugu Desam Party’s full support to the villagers’ struggle against the thermal power plant, which the Union ministry of environment and forests has since asked to stop, he assured the villagers: “We will fight till the thermal plant is totally stopped here.” However, former Union minister K Yerran Naidu and his younger brother Atchannaidu, who hai l from Srikakulam district, faced the villagers’ ire when they accompanied Naidu to console the police firing victims.
Yerran Naidu and his brother were reportedly in favour of the power plant.
Naidu interacted with the family members of the deceased – J Nageswara Rao and S Yerrayya.
–Agencies