Amaravati, July 31 (IANS) YSR Congress Party State General Secretary Nandamuri Lakshmi Parvathi challenged Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu’s wife Nara Bhuvaneswari to prove the claim that she was insulted in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly.
The YSRCP leader dismissed the remarks made by Bhuvaneswari during her visit to Kuppam as false.
Addressing the media at the YSRCP Central Office at Tadepalli, Lakshmi Parvathi said the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) is in power today and has complete access to Assembly records. If Bhuvaneswari’s claim is genuine, the government should make the records public instead of attempting to gain political sympathy, she said.
Lakshmi Parvathi is the second wife of TDP founder and former Chief Minister late N. T. Rama Rao (NTR).
Bhuvaneswari is one of the daughters of NTR from his first wife.
Lakshmi Parvathi said Bhuvaneswari was dragged into politics by her husband Chandrababu Naidu and son Nara Lokesh for political gain, while YSRCP had never made personal remarks against her.
Parvathi questioned why Bhuvaneswari remained silent when ITDP targeted her, despite being NTR’s legally wedded wife, through abusive trolling and morphed images. She also asked why Bhuvaneswari had never condemned the online abuse directed at women from the YSR family or spoken against the increasing atrocities on women and children in the State.
Lakshmi Parvathi said Chandrababu’s claim that he always keeps his promises was “the biggest joke of the year,” pointing to the coalition government’s failure to implement key election promises, including the Aadabidda Nidhi, free LPG cylinders and other welfare commitments.
She said Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy and Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy fulfilled the promises they made to the people, unlike Chandrababu and Lokesh.
Welcoming Bhuvaneswari’s entry into active politics, Parvathi said she must first apologise to the people of Andhra Pradesh for the “Red Book governance” and the misrule of Chandrababu Naidu and Nara Lokesh before seeking a political role.
During the campaign for the 2024 Assembly elections, Lokesh carried a ‘Red Book’, claiming that it has names of all the individuals, including officials who allegedly targeted TDP leaders during YSRCP rule.
YSRCP alleges that TDP is resorting to politics of vendetta by targeting its leaders with false cases.
–IANS
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