TDP raking past to sidestep core issues: YSRCP

Hyderabad, Sept 10 (INN): Castigating TDP for constantly trying to find new ways to divert the attention of the people from questioning its failure of waving loans of farmers and women groups, YSRCP has said that the government has been raking up bygone issues only to cover up its inefficiency and reaffirmed that it will continue to pursue the matter and serve as voice of the people.

'While the Government has miserably failed to fulfill even a single election promise after assuming office, the ruling Party has been trying to gag the voice of the opposition which has been persistently being questioning on behalf of the people.

The diversionary tactics were wide open inside and outside the Assembly with the treasury benches bringing in the Paritala Ravi murder issue when the discussion on current law and order situation was taken up which shows the evasive nature of the Government, 'YSRCP official spokesperson Ambati Rambabu told reporters here on Wednesday.

TDP MLA Paritala Suneetha has echoed what was told in the Assembly, by bringing up Paritala Ravi's murder issue with a threat that YS Jagan Mohan Reddy's role will be known if the case is reopened.

'This is speaking absolutely out of the box as the case was discussed threadbare in the Assembly, an inquiry was held, and the courts have heard the matter after which YSR and YS Jagan Mohan Reddy have been absolved of all the charges.

Should the State Government consider it fit to reopen the case, all political murders that took place in the State, including that of Vangaveeti Mohana Ranga should be reopened. NTR, Chandrababu Naidu and the then Home Minister and present Speaker Kodela Siva Prasada Rao were accused of master-minding the murder and were later cleared of the charges.

TDP leaders also faced the charges of eliminating IAS officer Raghavendra Rao in heart of Vijayawada city besides journalist Pingali Dasaratharam and Mallela Babji, whose exit was as dramatic as his entry in a bid to assassinate NTR.

These are all bygone things and courts have disposed of the cases. The Government can reopen all the cases, if it likes to, but the real intention is only to divert and deviate from the main issue.

When YSR Congress Party has given notice for a discussion on law and order situation, as scores of our Party leaders and workers were murdered, the treasury benches deliberately brought in irrelevant and closed issues to sidestep the main issue.

We have been questioning the Government on its failure to fulfill its poll promise on loan waiver and as the endurance levels are depleting and people are losing patience, the State has been resorting to wily and evasive tactics, he said.

'We have seen how the ruling party has misused the official machinery in election of ZPTC Chairpersons and how it has tried to manipulate the debate on law and order in the assembly. Recently a TDP leader from Visakhapatnam started leveling allegations against YSR and his Jalayagnam scheme.

These are not new and people did not believe them and voted YSR-led Congress back to power in 2009,' he said adding that the Party will represent the voice of the farmers, women groups, weavers and all sections that were deceived by the TDP Government.