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Government planning to do a Pulivendula in Penukonda, say TDP leaders

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They took exception to not naming the suspects in the FIR pertaining to the violence even a week after the incident Party leaders urge the EC to keep the two Ministers belonging to the district away from Penukonda

ANANTAPUR: TDP leaders have alleged that the State Government has been planning Pulivendula mark polling for the Penukonda byelection, where the democratic exercise is conducted purely one-sided every time.

Talking to newspersons here on Friday, the TDP spokesperson, M.V. Mysoora Reddy, and the MPs, M. Jagannatham and R. Chandrasekhar Reddy, said with Mr. Reddy at the helm, the State Government was planning to do a Pulivendula in Penukonda. Accordingly, the Government had scripted police firing on the day of nomination filing by the TDP nominee, P. Sunita, in advance and had implemented it on May 13, they said. Now that the first part of the script had been implemented successfully the Government was in the process of implementing the second part, wherein the police were harassing TDP activists in the village in the name of Penukonda violence cases and suggesting them to flee to Karnataka till the completion of election to evade cases, they alleged.

They took exception to not naming the suspects in the FIR pertaining to the violence even a week after the incident only to enable the police have a free hand to terrorise the TDP activists. The police teams were visiting villages and terrorising the TDP men, they stated. The TDP leaders urged the Election Commission to keep the two Ministers belonging to the district away from Penukonda as they had been intimidating the TDP activists either to join the Congress or to stay away from the election process.

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