Chandrababu Naidu slams police for ‘foisting’ case against Uma,visits his family, assures all help from party

He said it was atrocious on the part of the ruling YSR Congress Party to first engineer an attack on the former Minister and then have police cases slapped against him.

TDP national president N. Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday slammed the YSRCP government for ‘foisting’ cases against former Minister Devineni Umamaheswara Rao and other party leaders, instead of initiating stringent action against those involved in illegal mining in the Kondapalli reserve forest area in G. Konduru mandal of Krishna district. At a press conference after he called on the family members of Mr. Umamaheswara Rao at Gollapudi and assured them full support of the party, the TDP chief wondered how could the police book him under SC, ST Atrocities case when he was addressing a press conference at the mining site and even later, remained inside his vehicle for over nine hours following an attack on his car by “anti-social elements”. He said it was atrocious on the part of the ruling YSR Congress Party to first engineer an attack on the former Minister and then have police cases slapped against him. He alleged that the government, with the support of the police, was resorting to gross misuse of the SC, ST Atrocities Act to victimise the Opposition TDP leaders. “The mining mafia has unleashed a loot of the forest wealth in the Kondapalli region by felling trees used by the toy-makers of Kondapalli village to earn their livelihood,” he said.