Chandrababu slaughters democracy

• Favouritism against opposition MLAs in allocation of funds
• Purchase of MLAs with corrupt money
• Babu’s governance illustrates misuse of power
• Babu’s decisions are severe blow to democracy
• Venugopala Krishna slams TDP Government

Hyderabad: YSRCP’s official spokesman Venugopala Krishna slammed the TDP Government for slaughtering democracy with its ways. He condemned Chandrababu’s favouritism against allocating funds to opposition MLAs who had been elected by people in a democratic fashion. He commented that Babu’s governance was a punishment to the people of the state and a cause of insult to democrats. He spoke to the media at the party’s central office in Hyderabad.

Venugopala Krishna slammed TDP for threatening to hinder the development of constituencies if the opposition party MLAs of the respective constituencies had not joined TDP, citing Adinarayana Reddy and Akhila Priya as examples. He mentioned that funds had been allocated in the name of TDP leader Rama Subbareddy while Adinarayana Reddy had worked for YSRCP in Jammalamadugu constituency. Only after the latter had joined TDP, did the funds get released in his name. Similarly, while Akhila Priya worked for YSRCP in Allagadda, funds had been released to TDP leader Prabhakar Reddy, but after joining TDP, she could get funds under her name, he explained.

Venugopala Krishna questioned the democratic and ethical values behind this favouritism owards public representatives. He also called it misuse of power. He also condemned buying MLAs with money after they had been elected by people under a different party. He stated that people were observing how Chandrababu had been showing partiality in his decisions at village level and at constituency level and called Chandrababu’s decisions as a blow to the democratic system.