Former Minister Nara Lokesh has held the Jaganmohan Reddy Government responsible for the killing of Srinivasa Reddy at Gollalagunta village in Jaggampeta mandal in East Godavari district. He visited the village, called on the bereaved family members and took part in the funeral rites.

Terming it as a ‘YCP Government murder’, he said that the ruling YCP was not hesitating to bring the factionism and murder politics into an otherwise peaceful East Godavari district. The murder of the husband of the TDP supported candidate Pushpavati was condemnable. Her husband Srinivasa Reddy was kidnapped yesterday and he was killed today. This highly condemnable incident raised questions whether there was police machinery in the State at all. Stringent punishment should be given to the YCP leaders and the police who were responsible for this killing.

Mr. Lokesh said that the Chief Minister was bent on tearing down ‘mangala sutras’ of women. This was because the ruling party was scared of facing the people in the panchayat elections. This was why they were resorting to all sorts of violence, intimidation and killings. In the last 20 months, over 19 Opposition activists were killed and false cases were slapped on over 1,350 activists. The YCP leaders were shivering at the very sight of the TDP flag. The slain leader Srinivasa Reddy complained to the police but the CI did not respond. The complainant Srinivasa Reddy was called to the police station in the morning and he was found killed in the evening.

TDP National General Secretary Nara Lokesh has launched a novel opinion poll asking the people to respond on what exactly prompted Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy to make his latest visit to Delhi. He posed several questions for the respondents to answer as to why the AP Chief Minister was bending his own neck in front of the Centre instead of fulfilling his vow to bend the necks of Delhi to bring Special Category Status. The opinion poll was launched both on Facebook and Twitter.

A question was asked on whether the Chief Minister was going to Delhi to mortgage AP’s constitutional right to Special Status for the sake of protecting himself from the 31 cases.

People were asked for responses on whether Mr. Jagan Reddy’s visit was aimed at getting his uncle Vivekananda Reddy’s murder turned into a natural death by heart attack. Another question was whether the Chief Minister’s express purpose was to lobby in Delhi to realise his plans to destroy Amaravati Capital City in the name of 3 Capitals. This was going with total disregard for the rights and future of 34,000 farmers who had given their ancestral lands.

Mr. Lokesh also asked for the public opinion on whether the CM was trying to plead before the Delhi bosses to suppress proofs of his destructive raids on the 151 temples in AP.

TDP leader Nara Lokesh called on the family members of slain TDP BC leader Nandam Subbaiah at Proddatur on Wednesday afternoon.

Mr. Lokesh went on an indefinite protest along with Subbaiah’s wife Aparajita Reddy in the town. He asserted that their protest would continue in Proddatur till the police changed the FIR as per the original complaint filed by Subbaiah’s wife.

Mr. Nara Lokesh demanded inclusion of the names of local YCP MLA Rachamallu Siva Prasada Reddy, his brother-in-law Bangaru Reddy and Proddatur Municipal Commissioner Anuradha. Though Aparajita named all these persons in her complaint, the police did not include the same in the FIR copy. The police should explain why they had done this. What was the District SP doing when such injustice was being done?

Along with the slain leader’s wife, Mr. Lokesh addressed a press conference in Proddatur when he vowed not to give up their protest till justice was done for Subbaiah’s family. Just for putting a video on social media, the TDP weaver’s leader was murdered in broad daylight in the presence of the common public and officials. The YCP MLA resorted to this ghastly murder out of personal jealousy over the fact that Subbaiah was rising as a BC leader. He also rose to become the Kadapa parliamentary segment’s TDP official spokesperson. He had sensed threat to life and asked for security but the police did not care to act which had now led to this murder.

Mr. Lokesh asserted that it was not the TDP but Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy who was known for doing ‘Sava Rajakeeyalu’ (politics over mortal remains). The whole State knew who became busy collecting signatures of the MLAs instead of waiting till his father’s body was found. The TDP would always be in the forefront of the fight for the rights of the victims. The two children of Subbaiah were now asking what wrong their father did that he was given so severe a punishment. Why did not the police include the names of the MLA and municipal commissioner as complained by Aparajita? Were the police afraid or did they receive any phone call from top persons?

Stating that there was not a single case pending against Subbaiah right now, Mr. Nara Lokesh said that even those 14 cases in the past were totally politically motivated and they had been struck down. A malicious campaign was launched against the TDP rising leader. In that case, Mr. Jaganmohan Reddy had countless 420 cases and 11 chargesheets filed against him. Everybody knew how the CM was presently on bail. The CM and his Ministers repeatedly would boast of having 151 out of 175 MLAs but for reasons not known they were getting panicky at a small incident like a social media video posted by Subbaiah. The video contents were all facts and the slain TDP leader was ready to prove how the MLA and his henchmen were involved in atrocities and extortions by resorting to sand smuggling, cricket bettings, gambling and matka activities.

Mr. Lokesh warned of dire consequences if the YCP continued implementing its faction-driven Raja Reddy Constitution in AP while the rest of the country was following the Dr. BR Ambedkar Constitution. Already, this Government was managing by imposing Section 144 in Tadepalli, Tadipatri, Proddatur and even a remote place like Palasa. No wonder, the YCP regime would have to impose Section 144 all over the State going by its rising unpopularity because of its non-stop atrocities and misrule.

Referring to the Tadipatri incident, Mr. Lokesh expressed surprise how a sitting MLA could take the help of the local SI and policemen to go and launch an attack on the house of a former MLA. Not only that, false cases were registered against the victims. The SI himself accompanied the YCP MLA during the attack.

Subbaiah’s wife Aparajita, who also spoke, said that her huband served and guarded MLA Siva Prasada Reddy like a dog prior to joining the TDP. The MLA himself helped and performed their inter-caste marriage. But the same MLA had eliminated Subbaiah now.

She said that she would not give up her protest till the police included the names of the MLA, his brother in law and the municipal commissioner in the FIR. It was because of a call received from the commissioner that Subbaiah went to the spot where he was murdered as per a conspiracy. The commissioner was also involved in the conspiracy.

Telugu Desam Party (TDP) national general secretary and Opposition leader Nara Lokesh on Tuesday alleged that three tenant farmers committed suicide in three days, demanding the state government to come to their rescue.

“Tenant farmers are committing suicides on a daily basis and there is no reaction from this government. Three farmers died in three days,” alleged Lokesh adding that instead of giving assurance to the farmers the ministers are insulting them.

Lokesh said Oleti Adishesu, a tenant farmer from Modhumudi village in Avanigadda mandal of Krishna district committed suicide as he could not cope with the debts.

“Government must help the families of farmers who committed suicide. Farmers who suffered losses in the Kharif season should immediately be paid compensation,” demanded the TDP leader and son of Nara Chandrababu Naidu.

Lokesh questioned if Chief Minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy had the eligibility to rule when he was allegedly claiming the lives of farmers.

He demanded answers from cabinet ministers and claimed that 468 farmers committed suicide in the past 18 months, indicating from the time YSRCP party came to power.

Lokesh said the suicides of farmers Haribabu from Guntur district and Ramesh from Prakasam within 48 hours had really saddened him.

Earlier, the TDP national general secretary shot off a letter to Reddy, threatening that if farmers devastated by floods and cyclones are not provided relief, there would be a mass movement against the government.

Lokesh claimed that in the kharif season alone, swathes of fields stretching up to 50 lakh acres incurred Rs 10,000 crore losses.

TDP MLC Nara Lokesh moved a privilege notice in the AP Council against Guntur Urban SP Ammi Reddy. He made a formal complaint to the Council Chairman saying that Mr. Ammi Reddy had threatened him by making posts on social media. When he found fault with the false arrest of TDP activist Mani Ratnam, the SP put social media comments to threaten and trample on his rights as an MLC.

If the police officer had any complaint, he would have to come through the proper channel and bring the same to the notice of the Council Chairman.

The council also witnessed a heated debate on how the ruling YCP Ministers were spreading ‘misinformation’ to the public on comments allegedly made by Chandrababu Naidu on agriculture. The TDP challenged Ministers Botsa Satyanarayana and Kanna Babu to prove where exactly Mr. Naidu has said that cultivation would be a wasteful effort. The debate was relating to alleged comments against agriculture in Mr. Naidu’s book ‘Manasulo Maata’.

Mr. Lokesh said that the TDP had ample proof to show how Botsa Satyanarayana and Kanna Babu had made serious comments against Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy before joining the YCP. These leaders even called the YCP a ‘Chanchalaguda Party’, meaning that the leader of the party was bound to go to jail in the illegal assets cases.

The ruling YCP is leaving no chance to embarrass and irritate the Opposition Telugu Desam Party. Nara Lokesh has become a prime target for CM Jagan Reddy, his Ministers and MLAs all over. They are following every move of Lokesh and taking immediate counter action to bring pressure on him. Now, the YCP got a case filed against Lokesh for causing harm to the lives of many people by driving a tractor without the required knowledge of it. The tractor incident took place at Siddhapuram village in Akividu area.

The case was filed at the Akividu police station in West Godavari district. Lokesh was charged with causing the tractor mishap during his visit to flood-hit areas. Charges were also levelled against the TDP MLC saying that he had not observed Covid 19 restrictions and preventive guidelines properly. Case was filed under sections 279, 184 and 54A and also under various sections of the Epidemic Act.

Wide media coverage was given for Lokesh narrow escape incident in tractor mishap yesterday. This has embarrassed and angered the YCP local leaders who were already furious over the TDP visits to damaged crops.

TDP national general secretary, Nara Lokesh, had a close shave on Monday afternoon when the tractor he was driving suddenly overturned. Lokesh escaped unhurt in the freak mishap.

The incident occurred in Siddapuram village in Akiveedu in West Godavari district when Nara Lokesh was driving a tractor as part of his campaign to interact with flood-affected farmers.

Lokesh drove to reach a remote area in Siddapuram village to meet the farmers. The torrential rains has led to waterlogging. The minor mishap occurred when Lokesh was trying to navigate the tractor through the thick blanket of water. As soon as he reached the village, he was informed that the tractor would not be able to reach the site due to the heavy rainfall.

The tractor lost control and slipped into Uppataru canal. However, MLA Manthana Ramraju got alerted and controlled the tractor thereby averting what could have been a major accident.

Later, Lokesh interacted with the fishermen who lost their cultivation.

TDP national general secretary Nara Lokesh on Friday came down heavily on the Jagan Mohan Reddy-led YSRCP government for failing to come to the rescue of farmers in Anantapur.

On Friday, Lokesh visited the flood-hit villages in Anantapur district and interacted with farmers at Karidikonda and Peddavadugur villages. The TDP general secretary enquired about the extent of damage to crops, mainly cotton and groundnut.

Speaking to the media, Lokesh slammed the Jagan government for its lackluster approach in providing financial assistance to the flood affected farmers in Anantapur. He alleged that the YSRC government which claims to be ‘Rythu Bharosa’ government, had neglected the welfare of farmers.

Lokesh was accompanied by former minister Kalva Srinivasulu, ex-MLA J C Prabhakar Reddy, and other TDP leaders. Lokesh demanded the state government to immediately pay Rs 27,000 compensation to farmers. “The government has failed to provide any subsidy to the farmers in the last 17 months. The YSRCP has not implemented a single promise made in its manifesto. This is a farmer unfriendly government,” he criticized.

More than 48 mandals in Anantapur received heavy rains and floods, mainly affecting cotton, groundnut, paddy and other cash crops. Groundnut farmers in Anantapur expected a bumper crop this Kharif, but suffered heavy losses due to the flash floods. The loss of groundnut crop was more in Anantapur district than other districts.

Former Minister Nara Lokesh has made a whirlwind visit to the flood-hit areas and enquired about crop losses from the farmers in East Godavari district. He stepped into the knee-deep flood waters in the agricultural fields at several places and asked the farmers about the extent of crop damages. The farmers poured out their woes on account of loss of their crops even as there was no enumeration being taken up by the Government till now.

The TDP former Minister visited damaged crops spread over different villages in Jaggampeta, Prathipadu, Pithapuram and Anaparthy assembly constituencies. He also visited the submerged houses in the flood waters. Former Home Minister Nimmakayala Chinarajappa, Jyothula Navin, Pavani, Varupala Raja and others during his visit to Gollaprolu and Pithapuram mandals.

Mr. Lokesh accused the Jagan Reddy regime of deliberately dividing farmers along caste and religious lines for the sake of deriving political mileage. Benefits were not being given to the deserving farmers under Rythu Bharosa. Discrimination was being shown to the poor and tenant farmers in the schemes. The Government failed to take preventive and advance mitigation measures even though prior information was available on the flood situation. The flood victims and the evacuees were not getting proper relief and essential supplies. The AP Government has responded only when the Prime Minister made a telephone call to enquire about damages in the floods and heavy rains.

Mr. Lokesh deplored that Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy was travelling in helicopters in the name of aerial visits without making field visits to console and rescue the farmers. The CM was not bothered to ensure proper relief and compensation when the farmers were facing misery in the repeated floods and heavy rains. Instead of taking up relief measures, the YCP Ministers were using all their energy to criticize and attack the TDP. They were speaking as if the TDP leaders had no right to visit the flood-hit areas. Agriculture Minister Kanna Babu was nowhere to be seen even though crops were submerged and damaged all over the State causing severe losses to the farmers. Compensation has not reached the farmers who lost their crops in the last season’s floods till now.

The TDP launched an attack on public money being diverted to CM Jagan own media. TDP former Minister Nara Lokesh has decried the YCP Government’s attempts to ‘divert’ the public money on a large scale to increase the circulation figures of CM Jaganmohan Reddy family’s own media in the State. Over Rs. 5.5 Cr public funds were being looted in village and ward Secretariats in the name of the ruling party’s media, which is nothing but a political pamphlet. The government says it had no money to open Anna Canteens that had quenched the hunger of poor workers, coolies, small time employees, vendors and different sections.

Mr. Lokesh said that the Jagan Reddy rule literally snatched away food from the mouths of the poor people. But, by giving the Government advertisements aplenty, hundreds of crores were being given to the YCP media. Though all sections of people were resenting its activities, the Government was treading all wrong paths to increase the circulation of the ruling party’s media. The Jagan regime was not hesitating to commit scam in every scheme and programme. The village Secretariats were also being used in a variety of ways to continue its corruption.

TDP former Minister Nara Lokesh on Friday accused the YSRCP Government of trying to cover up the suspicious death of another Dalit youth Ajay while in the excise police custody in Vijayawada.

Mr. Lokesh said that the efforts were on to give ill health as the cause behind the death of Ajay. The Government wasn’t bringing pressure and threatening to make the parents and family members not to raise suspicions. The Dalit youth was called in the name of investigation and was badly beaten that led to his eventual death. The death happened while Ajay was in the custody of the special enforcement bureau.

Expressing concern over the rising atrocities, the TDP MLC deplored that the Jagan Reddy regime gave one type of treatment to Durga Temple Board Member’s son and another type of treatment to Dalit youth though they faced same charges. Dalits were being persecuted now. Just for not wearing a mask, Dalit youth Kiran Kumar was beaten to death. For asking for masks, Dalit doctor Dr Sudhakar was beaten and branded and insane.

Mr Lokesh asked whether the police stat have been converted into the YSRCP faction dens. Just for protesting against illegal sand transportation, Dalit youth Vara Prasad was called and tonsured at the police station. The Dalits will teach a fitting lesson to the YCP when the opportunity comes.

దళితులపై @ysjagan గారి దమనకాండ పరాకాష్టకు చేరింది. విచారణ అని పిలిచి విజయవాడ, కృష్ణలంక కు చెందిన దళిత యువకుడు అజయ్ ని కొట్టి చంపేశారు. అనారోగ్యంతో చనిపోయాడని తప్పుదోవ పట్టించే ప్రయత్నం చేస్తున్నారు.(1/3) pic.twitter.com/4aQiRHHvkk

— Lokesh Nara #StayHomeSaveLives (@naralokesh) October 2, 2020

Andhra Pradesh Panchayat Raj Minister Peddireddy Ramachandra Reddy has been under increasing attack from the Telugu Desam Party over atrocities on Dalits in his native Punganur assembly constituency. Nara Lokesh has commented that the Miniter’s followers were not even sparing the journalists and a journalist’s house was demolished in Chittoor district. There was no freedom of the press under the Jagan Reddy regime. Lokesh’s comment triggered debate once again on the suspicious death of Om Pratap who was found dead a few days after he made disparaging comments against CM Jaganmohan Reddy in a viral video.

All through these controversies, Minister Peddireddy kept his cool and silence but the moment Lokesh made a comment, the Minister made counter allegations and accusations. Peddireddy clarified that the journalist was attacked by a group of persons when he tried to mediate in a case in which a head master allegedly molested a minor girl. The Minister said that Lokesh was spreading lies and untruths without checking facts about what really happened in the field level.

Peddireddy became furious and went making accusations against the TDP. He called Lokesh being equally filled with poison like his father Chandrababu Naidu. Both their brains were bent on doing evil things. Peddireddy was considered the second most powerful person after Jaganmohan Reddy in the YCP Cabinet. As a result, he was coming under greater attacks following untoward incidents taking place in his segment.

TDP National General Secretary Nara Lokesh has accused the YSRCP government of trying to weaken the case relating to the death of Chirala-based Dalit youth in Prakasam district. He demanded an impartial probe into the ‘killing’ of Y. Kiran Kumar who was attacked for not wearing a face mask. Necessary punishment should be given to the quilty persons so as to prevent such incidents in future. He advised the Government to desist from its efforts to cover up its failures and ensure a fair investigation to bring out the truth in the Dalit’s death case. Already, the family members of Kiran Kumar have demanded arrest of the cops responsible for the fatal attack.

It may be recalled that the Chirala youth was stopped on the road and beaten up by the cops following an argument over not wearing a face mask. The YSRCP Government came in for criticism as the Opposition leaders asked why such punishment was not being given to the Chief Ministers and the Ministers and the ruling party MLAs who were not wearing masks. Moreover, the YSRCP leaders were carrying out rallies and meetings thus becoming super spreaders of the virus in places like Srikalahasti, Sullurupeta, etc.

Meanwhile, the top police officials said that SI Vijaya Kumar has been suspended in connection with the Dalit youth’s death. The Dalit organisations have been demanding acton against him ever since Kiran Kumar succumbed to the injuries.

మాస్కు వేసుకోలేదని బంగారు భవిష్యత్తు ఉన్న దళిత యువకుడు కిరణ్ ని కొట్టి చంపేసారు. ఇప్పుడు కేసు నీరుగార్చేందుకు ప్రయత్నస్తున్నారు.నిస్పక్షపాతమైన ఎంక్వయిరీ జరగాలి. శిరోముండనం,కొట్టి చంపడం లాంటి ఘటనలు పునరావతం కాకుండా కఠిన చర్యలు తీసుకోవాలి. ఆ కుటుంబాలకు న్యాయం చెయ్యాలి. pic.twitter.com/DdQp64zr0N

— Lokesh Nara #StayHomeSaveLives (@naralokesh) July 28, 2020