Vijayawada: An advocate of the AP High Court, Gottumukkala Ronald Raju, served notices on Telugu Desam chief Nara Chandrababu Naidu and his son and TD leader Nara Lokesh, seeking the immediate withdrawal of their slogan ‘Psycho Povaali-Cycle Ravaali’ that has become viral in social media, electronic media, print media and other media platforms.
He said, “The Supreme Court clearly says constitutional functionaries like a Chief Minister or Prime Minister shall not be insulted by the opposition party or the leaders or people, and one must show respect to them.”
“If anybody including the Telugu Desam intentionally insults a personality to provoke the followers of the personality with a knowledge that it will cause provocation leading to the breach of public peace, it is a penal offence.”
He alleged that the Telugu Desam and its president and other leaders of the party unleashed a vilification campaign against Jagan "by viralling and circulating on all social media platforms with a highly defamatory slogan ‘Psycho should go, Invite the cycle,' with a malicious intention to damage the reputation of the chief minister and to paint him as a highly dangerous person, to provoke the lakhs of YSRC cadre and leadership and a majority of the people of AP to cause breach of public tranquillity and to cause unrest in the state.”
“The social media organisers and heads should not allow the Telugu Desam and its leaders to either viral or circulate the ugly slogans intended to insult the chief minister and also intended to incite violence in the state.”
The advocate requested the chief secretary of Andhra Pradesh to take appropriate steps at their end to prevent breach of peace and tranquillity in the state and to prevent anti-social activity being unleashed by Telugu Desam.
