YSRCP writes to CEO demanding derecognition of TDP

Oppn. party making baseless allegations against ruling party, says Appi Reddy

The YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) has lodged a complaint with the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Andhra Pradesh alleging that the TDP and its candidate for the byelection for the Tirupati Lok Sabha constituency, Panabaka Lakshmi, were distributing pamphlets containing an allegation that the ruling party had mortgaged the State’s legitimate right to Special Category Status (SCS), to get some of its leaders acquitted from cases pending on them. In a letter to the CEO on Sunday, YSRCP General Secretary L. Appi Reddy said the ‘false propaganda unleashed by the TDP leaders at the behest of former Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu’ was violative of the Model Code of Conduct and the Representation of People’s Act, 1951. He said it was a ‘known fact that the TDP and the Congress had foisted cases on Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy’ in the past and the same were pending in courts. Before the courts gave their judgements in the said cases, the TDP had been making baseless allegations to derive electoral mileage.