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Naidu calls on injured party activists

Staff Reporter

Visits general hospital with senior Telugu Desam Party leaders

ANANTAPUR: The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) president and former Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, called on the 14 injured TDP activists undergoing treatment at the general hospital here on Saturday.

Accompanied by the party leaders -- T. Devender Goud, N. Janardhan Reddy, K. Srihari, S. Venugopala Chary, S. Chandramohan Reddy -- and others, Mr. Naidu spent more than an hour in the hospital interacting with the injured partymen.

Stones pelted from behind

The TDP activists stated that stones were pelted from behind and from the sides instigating the police to resort to lathicharge.

Without using teargas shells, water canons, plastic bullets, the police directly aimed their guns at the party activists, forgetting the regulation of firing on the legs.

They also narrated the filthy language allegedly used against them by the IGP, Meena, who visited them earlier in the morning.

While the 14 injured were being treated at the general hospital here, three others were shifted to Kurnool.

Meets party nominee

At the party office Mr. Naidu was closeted with key leaders and the window of Paritala Ravindra, P. Sunita, for about an hour to discuss the strategy to be adopted for the by-election in the wake of Friday's violence.

Earlier, during his visit to the injured in the hospital Mr. Meena sought to know from a few of the TDP men as to why did they go to Penukonda and who had sent them. He ended the interaction with a warning against attending such political gatherings.

Later, during the press conference Mr. Naidu took strong objection to Mr. Meena's approach. He also challenged the police to show any evidence of use of bombs by the TDP activists.

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