Remember attack on D Vanajakshi, a woman Tehsildar of Musunur block of West Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh in 2015, for obstructing illegal sand mining allegedly by former Telugu Desam Party MLA from Denduluru Chintamaneni Prabhakar?
The incident was a big issue for YSR Congress party which was in opposition then and it landed then Chandrababu Naidu government in deep trouble.
Now, the TDP leaders, who are presently in opposition, have got a similar episode to take revenge on YSRC which is in power.
This time, the accused is YSR Congress MLA Kotamreddy Sridhar Reddy, who allegedly attacked the house of a woman mandal parishad development officer and disconnected water and supply to her residence in the town on Friday night.
Venkatachalam MPDO Sarala, in her complaint lodged with the Nellore rural police, alleged that Sridhar Reddy along with his follower Srikanth Reddy came to her house on Friday night in a drunken condition, abused her and broke the water supply pipe and disconnected the power supply to her house.
She said the MLA had asked for a drinking water connection to the panchayat layout of Srikanth Reddy and she replied that she would go through the application.
“But the MLA got angry not obliging his request immediately and abused me over phone three days ago. On Friday night, he attacked my house. How can an MLA behave like this with a woman official?” Sarala asked.
She went to the local police station to lodge a complaint on the night itself, but they refused to take her complaint as there were no higher authorities.
She squatted in the police station all through the night and left only after the inspector arrived on the scene and registered a complaint against the MLA.
TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu and his son Nara Lokesh did not lose much time in attacking the YSRC government headed by Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy.
They alleged that there was no protection to women in the Jagan regime and even the police were refusing to register cases against the YSRC leaders.
“Where are we going? Are we in democracy or dictatorship?” Naidu asked in his typical style.
Well, that is politics!