Chandrababu Naidu: I may be arrested in a day or two

ANANTAPUR: TD president Nara Chandrababu Naidu suspects he may be arrested soon and that there is also a possibility of an attack on him.

Responding to the notices issued to him by the central Income Tax department in relation to the detection of operations of some shell companies, and a suspected scam in the Amaravati capital constructions during his term, Naidu said on Wednesday that he was a leader with a clean chit.

Naidu was on a tour of Anantapur district during which he interacted with people at a Praja Vedika in Rayadurg on Wednesday.

"The YSRC has been mounting pressure on several company representatives to name me in these connections so as to register cases against me", Naidu said.

He said, “Jagan Mohan Reddy and his government tried to fix me in false cases of Amaravati lands, state capital development, fibre grid deals etc one after the other during the past four years. Even Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy had tried to fix me in 26 cases of irregularities, but none of the cases had any evidence.”

Naidu claimed he was honest and sincere in politics for more than four decades.

He said the chief minister was threatening all sections including government employees, political parties, social organisations and the general public who questioned the lapses of the YSRC government in the past four years. “At the Angallu incident, police forced TD leaders to sign on papers admitting a conspiracy,” Naidu alleged.

Recalling the cases against him on alleged provocations at Punganur and against the Yuvagalam team during the recent padayatra, Naidu said the government wanted “to suppress the opposition parties and continue doing irregularities at the behest of sand, mining and liquor lobbies.”

The TD chief called on people to ensure that at least one person from every house came out and questioned Jagan Reddy over his "policy of harassment" and his "sadistic" rule.