YCP’s most unsparing Minister Kodali Nani has made a devastating attack on State Election Commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar. He mockingly said that Nimmagadda would continue for a very short period of time in his office. At the most, he will continue as SEC for another three or six months. After that, he will retired and stay permanently in his Hyderabad residence having nothing to do with Andhra Pradesh.

Kodali Nani asserted that Nimmagadda cannot follow his own Constitution to conduct the elections without consulting the Government. The Minister outright said that the local body elections cannot be held in the next few months. A second wave of Coronavirus infections are expected to hit the State in November or December. In such a situation, the Government’s chief concern would be to protect the lives of the people.

Minister Nani further clarified that like before, not many staff could be shifted from one place to another for election duty. Moreover, because of Coronavirus, voters might not come out of their homes to cast their votes. In the interests of people’s health, the Government has no idea to hold local body polls now.

Minister Kodali Nani told the Assembly that his Kamma caste people are foolishly opposing CM Jagan Reddy’s plan to shift Capital to Vizag. He said that by shifting Capital, their CM is actually benefitting the Kamna people who have got 50 to 70 per cent industries, cinema halls, businesses, studios, engineering colleges and hotels.

Minister Kodali sarcastically said that Chandrababu Naidu, Eenadu Ramoji Rao and Andhra Jyoti Radha Krishna are provoking the common Kamma people to come and protest in the streets. He further said that the foolish Kammas are blindly believing the jackal words of Naidu and getting beaten up by the police in illegal protests.

Interestingly, Minister Kodali didn’t bother to talk about the future losses that his caste farmers in Amaravati would suffer once Capital is shifted out. It became a matter of comedy for Kodali who even said that most hotels belong to Kammas in Vizag including Hotel Dolphin owned by Ramoji Rao. Kodali talked of more Kamma leaders like himself migrating to Visakhapatnam to set up businesses there after Capital is moved there.

One historic fact missed by Kodali was that Kammas lost all their hotels in Hyderabad after the Reddy leaders began totally dominating the Congress party in United AP.

YCP Minister Kodali Nani asked Chandrababu Naidu to stop making fake claims for the large-scale developmental projects in Hyderabad, the Capital City of Telangana. Nani says that it’s YS Rajasekhar Reddy, father of Jagan Reddy, who built lot of major infrastructure in Hyderabad surroundings. Even the Outer Ring Road that triggered massive growth there was built during the YSR Regime. Nani said that Naidu is talking as if he is the only person responsible for the whole development of Hyderabad.

Nani’s attack came in response to the Opposition leader’s visit to Amaravati Capital City. The Minister said that their party leaders would not keep silent if Chandrababu continues to level allegations to defame the YSR and Jagan Reddy family. Nani accused Naidu Regime of snatching lands of poor dalit families in the name of Capital City. Nobody is ready to believe the misinformation being spread by the TDP. Nani asked the TDP boss to stop his drama action on the issue of Amaravati Capital. He wondered that Naidu would even say that he would have connected land and sky if power is given to him.

As the TDP sand agitation reached a peak, Minister Kodali Nani entered the scene and attacked Chandrababu Naidu with highly objectionable language. The ruling YCP leaders were very happy because Nani’s attack looked part of an effective damage control measure. But, in his frenzied speech, Minister Nani brought up the controversial non-declaration of Jagan Reddy during his visits to Tirumala Temple. He went on using unparliamentary language like ‘Evadamma Mogudu’ (whose mother’s husband built Seven Hills temple).

It hurt the sentiments of Hindu devotees where it hurts the most. Consequently, the priestly associations and BJP leaders began demanding a public apology from Kodali Nani. They are asking now why CM Jagan Reddy is not signing Tirumala declaration. It is a centuries-old tradition which requires non-Hindus to declare their faith in Lord Venkateswara Swamy before entering the temple. Indira Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi, APJ Abdul Kalam, Presidents, Governors and Chief Ministers had signed this declaration in the past. What is preventing Jagan Reddy from doing so?

The BJP leaders have even filed a police complaint against the Minister in Tirupati alleging that Kodali Nani had hurt the sentiments of Hindu devotees. The issue gave another chance to BJP to take its master plans forward to defame Jagan Reddy Circar among the Hindu voters.

Kodali Nani faced lot of problems before he finally quit the TDP and joined the YCP. He continued in that party and was winning Gudivada seat consecutively. His good fortune is that he is now made minister by Jaganmohan Reddy because of fierce fights with the TDP leadership. He is known for his serious comments against Chandrababu Naidu.

But now controversial TDP MP Kesineni Nani says that Kodali should remain thankful to Devineni Umamaheswara Rao. The reason he gave is that Kodali would not have left TDP if he had no conflict with Devineni. Then there is no way Kodali could ever become a minister.

Kesineni has been very critical of TDP leadership since the party disaster in recent election. He has recently met Chandrababu Naidu and narrated his problems. TDP leaders think that Kesineni has also targeted Devineni who has commanded the party affairs in Krishna district for over a decade and half.