Former MLA and Tadipatri municipal chairman J C Prabhakar Reddy, who has been facing suffocation from all sides due to pressure being built up by the ruling YSR Congress party, is not willing to give up his fight.
He said he had been stripped of everything – his business activities had come to a halt; his properties had been seized and he is being mentally harassed with innumerable cases filed against him by the police at the behest of local MLA Kethireddy Pedda Reddy.
“Now, I am left with just a groin cloth. What else can they do? But I am not going to give up my fight. I shall continue to fight for justice and the people of my constituency,” the JC brother junior told reporters.
On Wednesday, Prabhakar Reddy took to streets with a begging bowl in Tadipatri town, seeking alms from various sections of people for the maintenance of underground drainage system.
He went on foot from Gandhi centre to new municipal market yard, begging money from people all along the route. He said from the municipality, an amount of Rs 45 lakh was released in two instalments, yet works were not being taken up.
The former MLA said Tadipatri municipality, which had once been a model municipality in Anantapur district, was now facing a resource crunch and struggling to raise funds even for civic activities.
Prabhakar Reddy said though he was the chairman of the municipality and also in-charge of Telugu Desam Party in the constituency, he was forced to beg on streets to raise money for the maintenance of Tadipatri’s underground drainage system.
Meanwhile, AP High Court has ordered a stay on construction of the compound wall for the Tadipatri Junior College, which is in front of the house of Prabhakar Reddy. Residents in the area approached the High Court saying norms are not being followed in construction of the compound wall.