Jagan, Naidu, and Kiran had their share in corruption: Raghavulu

                                                                      

“The CPI(M) is the only party that espouses the cause of the downtrodden and the underprivileged sections of society,” said its State secretary B.V. Raghavulu.

Addressing a public meeting at Nakkapalli RTC complex, he lashed out at the Congress, the Telugu Desam, and the YSR Congress parties for telling people that voting for the CPI(M) was “wasting” their vote. On the contrary, voting for those parties was nothing but giving them the “licence to loot” the public.

Mr. Raghavulu alleged that these parties turned politics into “best business” to amass wealth through various means such as forming liquor syndicates, sand mafia, and grabbing land belonging to farmers and fishermen and handing them over to corporate companies on a platter and minting money in the process. He said all the three parties were involved in liquor syndicates.

He expressed the view that YSRCP president Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy, TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu, and Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy had their share in corruption.

Mr. Kiran Kumar Reddy, who was the Chief Whip during the tenure of Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, failed to open his mouth against the corrupt deeds of YSR. Ministers Botcha Satyanarayana and Sabita Indra Reddy would also have to share the blame as they were Ministers in the YSR Cabinet.

He asked the voters as to what the present TDP and the YSRCP nominees, who had represented Payakaraopeta in the past, had done for them. Referring to the seizure of cash bundles from cars, he wondered what kind of victory it was.

He asked the voters: “If you sell your vote for Rs.1,000 or so, can you build a house or get employment for your children? At the most, you can buy a few bottles of liquor. Candidates who win by spending Rs.1,000 on each person will amass thousands of crores of rupees through various deals and deprive them of their livelihood.”

Nomination filed

CPI(M) district committee secretary Ch. Narasinga Rao recalled how the party had stalled the PCPIR while the other three parties were supporting it for their vested interests. Lok Satta district secretary Suresh Babu spoke.

Hundreds of party activists and workers marched to the Nakkapalli tehsildar office, about one km away, as party nominee for the Payakaraopeta Assembly by-poll Kothapalli Lokanadham, accompanied by the party leaders, went in a procession and filed his nomination after the public meeting.

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