Senior Telugu Desam Party leader and Andhra Pradesh agriculture minister Somireddy Chandramohan Reddy on Friday inadvertently revealed the criminal mentality of the party leadership, while referring to the attack on YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy at the Visakhapatnam airport on Thursday afternoon.
Somireddy ridiculed the YSRC leaders’ allegation that TDP president and chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu had masterminded the attack on Jagan.
“This is silly. Do you think Naidu will engage a small-time restaurant worker to attempt on the life of Jagan? If we really plan to murder Jagan, we won’t do such silly attempts like pinching or stabbing with a small knife. Our planning will be on the lines of YS Raja Reddy, YSR or Jagan,” he said.
So, Somireddy sought to indicate that Jagan would not have survived had Naidu really conspired for the Thursday’s attack. It clearly showed the criminal bent of mind of the TDP leaders.
The minister, however, was quick to clarify that the TDP leaders never had such criminal thoughts of eliminating their rivals or harming them in any other manner.
Somireddy reminded that during the 3,000-km long padayatra in the last one year all along the state roads, Jagan had not received even a minor injury.
“But he faced a knife attack in the longue of the Vizag airport which is highly protected by the CISF. How can this happen? Does it mean the CISF was also involved in this high drama?” he asked.