YSRC govt preventing opposition from meeting people: Pawan Kalyan

Kalyan vowed to ensure the opposition vote in AP does not get split in the 2024 elections, implying a political realignment, to defeat Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy.

Amaravati: Film star and Jana Sena Party president Pawan Kalyan on Sunday accused the YSR Congress Party government in Andhra Pradesh of preventing the opposition parties from meeting the people.

Talking to media persons in Hyderabad after meeting former Chief Minister and Telugu Desam Party president N. Chandrababu Naidu at the latter’s residence, he said that the AP government was depriving the people of their democratic rights and invoked laws of the British Raj. “They have issued GO no. 1 only to stop the opposition from meeting people. They have two sets of rules. They announced a ban on plastic flexies but the plastic flexies were found all over the place during Jagan’s birthday celebrations. The YCP knows it will lose in the coming elections and therefore is harassing the opposition parties by raking up issues, conspiracy and foisting false cases. That’s why I say that the opposition vote should not be split,” he said, adding that he would answer all the criticism at the January 12 `Yuvasakthi’ meeting scheduled to be held at Ranasthalam in Srikakulam district.

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Chandrababu Naidu, who also spoke, alleged that the Kandukuru and Guntur incidents where people died, was part of YSRCP conspiracy. “Can the police deny this? The AP government is most undemocratic. They harassed Pawan Kalyan in Visakhapatnam by imposing curbs,” he recalled.