Hyderabad: The Congress Legislature Party has lashed out at TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu, accusing him of harbouring criminals in his party. In a statement here on Saturday, CLP secretaries -- E. Pratap Reddy and S. Ganga Ram -- and its executive member V. Vasanth Kumar, criticised Mr. Naidu's visit to Narasaraopet to pay tributes Anjibabu since the latter was named in several criminal cases.

They said Mr. Naidu had never uttered a word of condemnation when nearly 1,000 Congress activists were murdered between 1995 and 2004. In Narasaraopet alone, more than 40 Congress activists were killed but the Congress did not accuse Mr. Naidu of complicity.

The Congress MLAs said the TDP had tried to implicate the son of Kasu Krishna Reddy just as it did in respect of Congress leaders in Paritala Ravindra's murder case.

`Smear campaign'

Mr. Krishna's Reddy son was in the United Kingdom at the time of the offence and had nothing to do with the crime.

They said former Home Minister Kodela Siva Prasada Rao's peace march was farcical since none had forgotten the bomb blast in his house claiming several lives. Earlier, PCC official spokesperson N. Tulasi Reddy, too criticised the TDP chief for paying tributes to Anjibabu.

Asking Mr. Naidu to stop politicising such murders, he said the former had no moral right to attack the Congress Government as his own track record on the law and order front was poor.

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