The YSR Congress party on Monday alleged that the police was harassing Pulivendula MLA and YSR Congress honorary president Vijayamma on her by-polls campaign trail.
The YSRC, in a statement, alleged that police have checked the suitcases of Vijayamma all along her way to Narsapur in West Godavari district in a highly objectionable manner.
‘The high handedness of police has come in full public glare when the suitcases of YS Vijayamma and her daughter Sharmila were checked by policemen and the force had no decency to get the work done by a women police at various check-points on Thursday and Friday,’ YSRC leaders Kolli Nirmala Kuamri, Jakkampudi Vijayalakshmi and other leaders said in a joint statement.
‘Political vendetta has been scaling higher and higher with every passing day with the increasing response YS Vijayamma has been getting in the campaign trail and the convoy was stopped at many places and the vehicle and suitcases were checked without following the basic norms of behaving with a women MLA who is also the wife of a popular chief minister of the state and the Honorary President of a political party,’ they said.
They said that the two-day unruly behavior began at the check point at Kongodu of Kajulur mandal.
When the vehicle and suitcases were being checked, accompanying YSRC leaders questioned why the convoy of PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana was let off without checking and if TDP chief Chandrababu Naiu’s convoy passes through will they behave in the same manner.
The checking continued at Ramachandrapuram by-pass road and police behaved in a rude manner. She entered West Godavari on Friday morning.
The convoy was stopped at Dindi check-post on the Razole-Chinchiwada highway. They have thrown the luggage out of the car and opened the suitcases and their bags in the checking operation, the YSRC leaders alleged.
The YSRC leaders took strong objection to the way the police were carrying out the search operations and told the police not to behave like the agents of the state government but do their work as per the prescribed norms.
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