BJP Rajya Sabha member G V L Narasimha Rao on Friday wrote a letter to Union Railway Minister, Ashwini Vaishnaw, requesting him to close the cases against Kapu leaders in the Tuni incident held in 2016.

The MP said that the Kapu leaders have organised Kapu Garjana Mahasabha in Tuni in 2016. He said that the State government had withdrawn the cases against the Kapu leaders. The government had in 2016 registered 51 cases against the Kapu leaders, including five cases filed by the Government Railway Police.

The railway minister in Rajya Sabha said that the Central government also withdrew the five cases filed by the railway police against the Kapu leaders.

While thanking the Union Minister, the BJP MP said that the acts of arson, damage to railway property, setting Ratnachal express on fire were not at all done by leaders and members of the Kapu Garjana Mahasabha, were acts by criminal elements who were there to give a bad name to the agitation and its leaders. These facts were widely known to the public and even reported in the media at that time.

Kapu leaders who have been accused under various sections in the above cases have hugely suffered physically, mentally and financially in the past six years for criminal acts of some other unscrupulous individuals.

BJP MP GVL Narasimha Rao is known for his pro-YCP leanings from the beginning. He had played a big role in supporting Jagan Reddy’s 3 Capitals decision. When there is any crisis for the AP Government, GVL would come up to lend a helping hand to the CM. But the scene has reversed now apparently.

No doubt, the BJP has not got their expected mileage on the Ramatheertham temple incident. Now, GVL is saying that both the YCP and the TDP were conspiring to prevent the BJP from getting a foothold in Andhra Pradesh. Otherwise, the ruling party would not have suppressed the BJP protests at Ramatheertham.

GVL said that in Uttar Pradesh also, the same thing had happened. The Samajwadi Party, the Bahujan Samaj Party and other parties tried all their efforts to stall the progress of the BJP in UP. But eventually all their plans had failed. The BJP had come to power with huge success in Uttar Pradesh.

GVL warned the two regional parties in AP that if they continued their devious plans against the BJP, both the parties would have to face serious consequences in future.

After calling Priyanka Gandhi and Robert Vadra “Bunty and Babli” of Indian politics, BJP Rajya Sabha MP G V L Narasimha Rao took a swipe at several political figures of the two Telugu states.

He said Andhra Pradesh is caught in the grip of four eclipses (grahanalu) – former CMs NTR, YSR, Chandrababu Naidu and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy. Further, he stated that none of the four leaders can be exemplified as great leaders.

“We have had great leaders like Tanguturi Prakasam, Kandukuri Veeresalingam who sacrificed their lives for the country. But unfortunately we do not recognise them. On the contrary, we eulogise these dynasty families who have ruined the state. The development of the state is paralysed because of the two regional parties,” he lashed out.

Turning his ire against the ruling YSRCP in Andhra Pradesh, GVL stated that the party rode to power claiming to wipe out corruption in the state but mired itself in several corrupt deals. “There is sand scarcity in Andhra Pradesh because of the sand mafia being encouraged by the government. The YSRCP is using corruption only as a card to win votes. Caste politics have turned their ugly head in the state,” he hit out.

Reminding the Jagan government that the purchase and sale of liquor was a state subject, BJP Rajya Sabha MP G V L Narasimha Rao on Wednesday stated that the Andhra Pradesh government was solely responsible for reopening liquor stores and that the central government gave only few relaxations for the benefit of the states.

Addressing a press meet, G V L Narasimha Rao said the central government allowed only a few relaxations, but was completely against the sale of liquor in light of the spread of the pandemic. However, all the chief ministers, in their meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, had appealed to allow liquor shops to reopen as they are a major revenue generating way for the states. The state heads argued that excise duty on alcohol is one of the biggest revenue earners , and banning its sale at a time when other economic activity has come to a near halt has further aggravated the financial crunch they are facing. “The states had asked the central government for the reopening of liquor stores. Liquor sales is a state subject, the YSRCP ruling in Andhra Pradesh was issuing misleading statements that they had reopened liquor sales on the central government’s directive. This is completely wrong and misleading,” GVL said.

Reacting to the AP government’s decision to hike prices by 75% only to discourage liquor consumption, GVL said if the government was committed to eradicating alcohol in the long-term, the lockdown period was not the right time to impose prohibition in the state of Andhra Pradesh. “If the AP government has reopened liquor stores as part of the central government’s directive, why is that liquor has been banned in the states of Tamil Naidu,” he questioned and sought an answer from the ruling dispensation.

The Jagan government from May 4 allowed standalone shops to sell liquor between 11 am to 7 pm. After being closed for over two months of lockdown, a surge of tipplers raided the shelves at liquor stores and wine shops across the green and orange zones. There was utter chaos across the zones.

Persons visiting the shops will have to maintain social distance of at least six feet, but this norm was violated across the state even as the police tried to regulate the queues. Many of the tipplers were seen without masks, a norm for purchase of alcohol.

BJP national spokesperson GVL Narasimha Rao welcomed the latest statement of Jana Senani Pawan Kalyan who clarified that he never severed his ties totally with the BJP. He also welcomed Chandrababu Naidu’s positive comments towards the Modi-Shah leadership. At the same time, GVL cautioned the two regional parties not to dream of taking advantage of the BJP government at the Centre to take their revenge against the YCP.

GVL mockingly used a cinema song line and asked Naidu-Pawan duo not to fire a 6-feet long bullet from the shoulders of the BJP leaders in AP. Instead of dragging their political confusion, the two regional parties should come forward clearly if they have any plans to merge with the BJP. GVL offered to take the initiative positively if Pawan Kalyan takes an immediate decision in this regard.

GVL comments once again triggered political debates. Though he can’t win even a sarpanch or ward member election, GVL is talking as if he is the sole decision maker. GVL latest comments are also seen as favourable more to Jagan than to BJP.