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ANANTAPUR: The president of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and Leader of the Opposition, N. Chandrababu Naidu, has expressed doubts about free and fair byelection in Penukonda with the Rayalaseema Zone IGP, R.P. Meena, and the Superintendent of Police, R.S. Praveen Kumar, in place. Addressing a press conference at the TDP office here on Saturday after consoling 14 TDP workers, injured in Friday's unprecedented violence at Penukonda during the nomination filing by the TDP candidate, P. Sunita, at the General Hospital, he alleged that the Congress Government was planning to win the Penukonda byelection with dubious means. He asked the State and Central Governments and the Election Commission of India to order a judicial probe by a sitting judge into the violence. The IGP and SP should be suspended for their questionable role in the violence and the political killing of 28 TDP leaders and activists in the district during the last one year. The filthy game of victimisation had already begun with the arrest of four TDP activists and the plans to foist cases on them after pressurising them to own up responsibility for instigating violence, Mr. Naidu explained. They had also written to the ECI requesting it to conduct the byelection by posting election officials from other States.
Bomb theory
The bomb theory picked up by the SP that violence had broken out with hurling of bombs by a few TDP activists was his strategic move to sow seeds of distrust between the police and the TDP further. However, Mr. Naidu made it clear that the TDP had no differences with the police and it had problems only with a few tainted and indifferent officers like Mr. Meena and Mr. Praveen Kumar. Mr. Naidu assured the ECI of total cooperation in conducting a free and fair byelection in Penukonda. Blaming a few police officers being responsible for the unprecedented violence at Penukonda, he warned them: "If you (police officers) try to politicise the violence you will end up as a scapegoats." He also suggested to police officers and men not to fall in the trap of such officers. The TDP was not aiming at the policy of an eye for an eye but would create awareness among party cadres for observing restraint during any trouble. He, however, asserted that the TDP would expose all those behind the violence.
Outsiders' role
Stating that 55 TDP leaders and activists were killed in the one-year rule of the Chief Minister, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, Mr. Naidu said he would not rule the State for long by sitting over bodies. He criticised the Home Minister, the DGP and the SP for blaming the TDP for the Penukonda violence when the TDP itself was a victim. He suspected the role of some outsiders, other than TDP workers, in the violence but it had to be established. The violence was planned to spoil the nomination-filing of Ms. Sunita. He sought to know as to how TDP men themselves could spoil their programme. Mr. Naidu condemned the killing of the ASI and six TDP men and expressed sympathies to their families.
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