TDP general secretary and former minister Nara Lokesh on Saturday demanded a detailed probe into the cheating of tribal youths by YSRCP MLC Ananta Babu’s follower Victor Babu in agency area.

Lokesh said that Victor Babu has collected lakhs of rupees from the agency youths, offering to provide Government jobs to them. The employment fraud got finally exposed as the cheated candidates have now started protests against him.

Lokesh said that Dooda Victor Babu belonging to Chetlavada village in Maredumilli mandal in Alluri Sitaramaraju district has been a close follower of Anantha Babu. he has been fleecing the tribals by taking advantage his proximity to the YSRCP leaders.

Lokesh said that Victor Babu has promised to provide attender posts in high schools to seven tribals immediately after the YCP would come to power. He collected over Rs. 10 lakh from them. Finally, they were not given either jobs or their refunds.

Lokesh demanded that the officials concerned register a case against Victor Babu. He has collected Rs. 1.5 lakh each from Kaka Mahesh, Bogga Lakshman, Bogga Ravi, Puli Dharmaiah belonging to Bojjarayigudem village and Karaka Daraiah of Repaka, Sode Lakshmi hailing from Regulapadu and Panda Ashok belonging to Vegithota.

Lokesh said that Anantha Babu murdered his driver and door delivered the dead body but still he was getting respectable treatment from the police. Similarly, his follower Victor Babu cheated tribal youths but still enjoyed his clout despite protests from them.

Lokesh said that for the past two and half years, the agency youths have waited for the promised jobs. Victor Babu had not provided jobs and used all that money for his luxuries. He made the youths believe by saying that he could get jobs by using his influence with MLC Anantha Babu and YCP MLAs.

Lokesh termed it alarming that the cheated youths brought high interest loans to pay Victor Babu. They were saying that they were not able to repay the loans and the interest. They lived working as coolies but still took loans at Rs 5 interest, believing in the words of Victor Babu.

Lokesh demanded that Victor Babu be arrested as the tribal youths were saying that they had no choice but to commit suicide. The higher officials should respond and ensure recovery of their amounts along with interest.

TDP general secretary and former mister Nara Lokesh on Sunday slammed Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy for turning AP into ‘Sampoorna Madyapaana Pradesh’ (complete liquor state).

Lokesh called it a matter of serious concern that CM Jagan has brought over Rs. 8,300 Cr new loans by mortgaging the liquor drinkers in the State.

The TDP MLC demanded the Chief Minister to explain what happened to his pre-election promise of phased prohibition. Jagan Reddy had made countless such false promises to his so-called ‘akka chellemmalu’ (elder and younger sisters).

Lokesh said the CM portrayed himself as ‘Jagananna’ for all but after coming to power, his J-brands started tearing apart the mangala sutras of all sections of women. The Chief Minister’s betrayal of liquor policy was enough to say how treacherous the YSRCP rule has been in the past three years.

Lokesh called Jagan a ‘Boom Boom Reddy’, saying that the CM’s misdeeds in the name of phased prohibition crossed all limits. In a total reversal of his own policy, Jagan Reddy has given it in writing to the loan giving firms that his Government would not implement the total prohibition policy.

TDP general secretary Nara Lokesh demanded a CBI investigation into the suspicious death of Gangadhara Reddy, who was a suspect in the YS Vivek murder case. Lokesh said that one by one, the suspects in the Viveka murder were dying under mysterious circumstances just like in the Paritala Ravi murder case.

Lokesh stressed the need for cracking the mystery behind the death of over three suspects in the Viveka murder in the past three years. At least now, the CBI should provide protection to the remaining accused persons and also to the approvers in the sensational YS Viveka murder.

Lokesh said that a lot of planning had gone into the killing of Viveka. The perpetrators tried to portray the axe attack as a heart attack. While the main accused were still evading the law, the witnesses and those who gave stitches to the dead body were dead. There was a lot of mystery behind the suspicious deaths of suspects and witnesses.

Lokesh said that in the beginning, the perpetrators made allegations that Chandrababu Naidu was behind the Viveka murder. As the hand of relatives was confirmed later, they were eliminating the suspects and witnesses one by one. The suicide of Simhadripuram resident Katikareddy Srinjivasula Reddy was also a part of this elimination plan.

Lokesh said that Jagan Reddy’s father-in-law Gangi Reddy, who gave the bandage to the head of Viveka’s body, also passed away under suspicious circumstances. Another key suspect ‘Kuwait Gangadhara Reddy’ also passed away. The CBI should crack the mystery behind his death.

Lokesh recalled that Gangadhara Reddy gave an affidavit to the CBI under CrPC section 161 that Devireddy Shankar Reddy offered Rs. 10 Cr to him if he took blame for the Viveka murder. Once again, Gangadhara Reddy turned tables on the CBI and complained to the AP police against them.

Lokesh said that Jagan Reddy face allegations in the Paritala Ravi murder. In that case also, the accused persons died mysteriously. The mastermind behind the Paritala and the Viveka murders was one and the same. The reverse cases on the CBI and threats clearly indicated that a prominent person was behind the Viveka murder.

TDP general secretary Nara Lokesh on Saturday strongly objected to the Jagan Government postponing the results of 10th class apparently for political reasons.

Lokesh asked what wrong the innocent children had done when the officials did not give prior information on results to the Education Minister. Unbelievable incidents were taking place under the lawless rule of Jagan Mohan Reddy.

Lokesh warned the Government not to play dangerous games with the future of students. What was the real reason for postponing results? Was it because the Minister was unhappy or for changing marks in Jagan-mark results.

Lokesh asked how Jagan Reddy could postpone results of students just like protracted and non-stop adjournments in his court cases. Minister Botsa Satyanarayana seemed to know only the number of his own wine shops in the State but not the number of Government schools.

The TDP MLC demanded an explanation from the Government to the children on the abrupt postponement of 10th class results. Over six lakh students were eagerly waiting for today’s results. How could these results be postponed at the last minute? The inefficiency of Jagan Reddy’s rule got exposed one more time.

Meanwhile, Lokesh consoled wife, mother and family members of slain TDP activist Kancherla Jallaiah over telephone. He accused Jagan Reddy of perpetrating ‘social injustice’ under the cover of ‘Samajika Nyaya Bheri’ bus yatra.

Lokesh warned that the YCP leaders would be wrong if they believed that they could commit any crime and escape from punishment taking advantage of the Raja Reddy constitution. The TDP would come to power in the next elections and it would ensure deterrent punishment.

TDP general secretary Nara Lokesh on Friday condemned the latest atrocious behaviour of the revenue officials towards a mother and her daughter at Gudipadu village in Gudur mandal of Kurnool district.

Nara Lokesh called it inhuman on the part of the Jagan Government to misuse women police to suppress the rights of women in the State.

The TDP MLC said Meenakshamma and her daughter put up a stiff resistance when the officials came to take over the site in front of their house. In a very alarming manner, the women police used their ‘chunnis’ (dupattas) to tie up and immobilise the protesting mother and daughter.

Lokesh deplored that the common public were suffering untold misery because of the non-stop atrocities being committed by the Chief Minister and his party leaders, police and volunteers. It was high time Jagan Reddy should begin one more exclusive app to protect the public from his own party YSRCP goondas.

Lokesh said the victims of lawlessness were terrorised and prevented from raising their voices against the Government’s excesses. The time would come when all sections of men and women would come together to fight against the chaotic regime of Jagan.

The TDP MLC said that the civil society hanged its head in shame as the officials humiliated the mother and daughter at Gudipadu. Instead of feeling ashamed of such incidents, the YSRCP and its Government were only committing more such offences with no concern for the people’s rights.

TDP general secretary Nara Lokesh on Wednesday accused the ruling YSRCP leaders of competing with their CM Jagan Reddy to harass the people with their lawless activities.

Lokesh said YCP leader Sameer Reddy went to the extent of constructing a wall to shut down Anakalaveedhi street in Veldurthi in Kurnool district.

The TDP MLC expressed shock that the YCP leader and his followers unleashed a vicious attack on the local residents when they opposed the wall. The lawless YCP mob pelted stones and glass bottles, causing injuries to the remaining residents in the street.

Lokesh said even women and children were attacked by the ruling party goons. Not a single top leader of YSRCP tried to prevent Sameer Reddy from constructing the wall right across the street. The Veldurthi incident marked the peak levels to which the ruling party leaders’ sadistic attacks could reach.

Lokesh deplored that the common public were greatly suffering as the YSRCP leaders were showing their ugly sadism like villains in movies. As usual, the police officials were excellently performing their role as silent spectators to the ruling party’s villainism.

The former minister pointed out that the ruling party leaders were trying to suppress all voices with their brute power. While the YCP leaders were unleashing their brutal attacks, the general public were revolting against them with greater force. Jagan Reddy and his party should at least realise it would not be possible to stifle the voices of the public.

The success of Mahanadu at Ongole this time had raised the confidence levels of the TDP leaders in the state. The leaders are now in an elated mood and believe that the party would return to power in the 2024 elections if they work a little harder.

The TDP leaders across the state have held press conferences where they displayed the increased confidence levels after the Mahanadu. The leaders asserted that the TDP would return to power in the state with just a little push by the top leadership.

Even the activists are in elated mood with the success of the Mahanadu. The ranks who are down morally with the party’s humiliating defeat in the 2019 elections and the subsequent defeat in the local body elections are now fully recharged.

As the mood of the activists is up, the leadership is planning to sustain the increased confidence levels among the activists. The top leadership is now busy evolving strategy to sustain the upbeat mood among the workers.

One such plan is to make TDP general secretary Nara Lokesh to launch padayatra. Lokesh wants to be in the midst of the people for the next two years. Interestingly, Lokesh too had agreed to undertake the padayatra to be with the people, particularly the party workers.

The party leadership is now working on the schedule and the strategy to be followed for the padayatra. While some of the leaders are of the opinion that Lokesh should tour all the 175 Assembly constituencies in the next two years, some leaders favour a route covering majority Assembly constituencies.

TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu is also planning for a bus yatra as his son Lokesh takes up padayatra. Naidu wants to engage both the media and the people through these two different programmes for the next two years and win the 2024 elections.

It is to be seen when the TDP would announce the programme and the schedule.

TDP general secretary Nara Lokesh accused the ruling YSRCP of using hired goons and criminals to suppress the rising voices of the people against the Jagan Reddy misrule.

Lokesh condemned the latest attack by the YCP miscreants on Dalit woman Karlapudi Venkayamma just for voicing her strong feelings against the Government’s policies. They attacked her house at Kantheru in Guntur district.

Lokesh asserted that all sections of people in the State were expressing the same opinions as those of Venkayamma. Would Jagan Mohan Reddy target all the 5 crore people of Andhra Pradesh? There would be serious repercussions if any harm would be done to the illiterate and poor SC woman.

Lokesh said that Venkayamma had genuinely expressed her concern that the poor people were leading miserable lives under the Jagan rule. Instead of realising their mistake, the ruling party leaders were threatening the Dalit woman and her family members and relatives. Every citizen of the State was vexed with the manner in which the YSRCP was targeting critics and rivals.

Lokesh further criticised CM Jagan Reddy for unleashing more heinous attacks on the political rivals. It was apparent that the faction mindset of Jagan Reddy was reaching new lows after the people were running away from his public meetings.

Lokesh decried the attack by the YSRCP miscreants in which the car of TDP state secretary Sainatha Sarma was damaged and vandalised in Kadapa district. The TDP leader was targeted just because he was exposing the massive corruption of Jagan Reddy’s maternal uncle and MLA Ravindranath Reddy.

The TDP MLC asserted that the CM and his party MLAs were suffering from the phobia of defeat in the next elections. Because of this, they were trying to use threats and intimidation. The people had realized that the Chief Minister’s promises were all lies and betrayals.

Lokesh said that Jagan Mohan Reddy had lost the trust of the people a long time ago. The people would not be afraid of the ruling party’s attacks and victimisation.

TDP general secretary Nara Lokesh on Monday lauded the people for boldly raising their voices against the ruling YSRCP MLAs and Ministers in the ongoing ‘Gadapa Gadapaku Government’ programme.

Lokesh said the Government had to hold the mass contact programme ‘behind the purdahs and curtain nets’ because of rising protests from all sections. The huge public backlash had further exposed the massive anti-Government wave in the State.

Lokesh sarcastically thanked Chief Minister Jagan Reddy for exposing his own regime’s unpopularity by holding Gadapa Gadapaku. The whole State had come to know the high range to which the anti-Government feelings among the people had reached in just three years.

Lokesh said the common public had turned the Government’s Gadapa Gadapaku into their own ‘Dabidi Dibide’ programme. They were openly questioning and criticising the YCP MLAs for not solving their problems at all. They demanded explanations from the Ministers on the ‘Badude Badudu’ taxes and charges that made their lives miserable.

The TDP MLC termed it as a pity that the ruling YSRCP MLAs and Ministers had to go to the people with massive security by the police. The intelligence wing had cautioned the Chief Minister about the huge public outcry that would come during the Gadapa Gadapaku visits.

Lokesh said that due to lack of an alternative, the ruling party leaders were carrying out Gadapa Gaddapaku programmes amid unprecedented bandobast. Drapes, curtains and nets were being used to prevent the public from freely interacting with the YCP leaders. Moreover, shops were being closed and preventive arrests were being made ahead of the Gadapa Gadapaku visits.

Lokesh called it ironic that the Chief Minister, who claimed credit for massive welfare programmes, had to take the help of the police even to face the public. Jagan Reddy held padayatra all over the State before the 2019 elections but in just three years, he was not able to freely go to the people’s doorsteps.

The TDP MLC said that the YSRCP regime used the police to suppress the voices of the opposition, social media activists and civil society in the past. Now, it was using the police force to silence the voices of the poorer sections who were just pouring out their unresolved problems to the YCP MLAs.