TD legislators to attend assembly session and protest Naidu's arrest

Vijayawada: Telugu Desam legislators would attend the AP legislative session beginning from Thursday to raise their voice against the “illegal” arrest of their party chief Nara Chandrababu Naidu.

The TD legislature party held a meeting chaired by the party’s state president K Atchannaidu at the party headquarters in Mangalagiri on Wednesday and resolved to attend the AP legislature session.

Later, TD leaders Nimmala Ramanaidu, B.V. Swamy and B.T. Naidu told the media that the YSRC had turned the legislature sessions a farce by not accepting any resolutions moved by the TD and also by not giving adequate time for the TD legislators to speak on various issues. “When the ruling party legislators get seven to eight hours, the Opposition was allotted just 10 minutes.”

They said the TDLP has resolved to raise the issue of illegal arrest of their party chief and expose the “conspiracy” behind his arrest, in the legislature, to enable the people know as to how Naidu was “maltreated.”

The TD leaders said the cases booked against Naidu were politically motivated. “We would expose the lapses on the part of the YSRC government with regard to illegal sand mining, liquor mafia, land scams and attacks on Dalits, BCs, minorities and women.”

“We would also expose how the YSRC intended to decimate the opposition parties,” they said and flayed the state government for sending Naidu to jail. The government, they said, was “unable to digest the kind of support Naidu was getting from the people as he was touring the state addressing meetings.”

“Our main agenda for the five-day session of the legislature is to press the demand that the government lift all illegal cases booked against Chandrababu Naidu,” they added.