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Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy alleged that the ruling BJP astatine the helm of affairs astatine the Centre stooped to the level of ‘seat chori’ aft resorting to ‘vote chori’, undermining democracy.
“The BJP is hell-bent connected repeating the ‘vote chori’ ploy it successfully implemented successful the caller Assembly polls successful West Bengal successful Telangana too,” helium charged, urging section Congress cadres to beryllium vigilant to foil what helium called ‘manipulative tactics’ of the BJP.
Mr. Reddy addressed a gathering of the Congress Booth Level Agents (BLAs) of the Palair Assembly Constituency held astatine Yedulapuram successful Khammam agrarian mandal connected Friday.
Referring to the rejection of Congress person Meenakshi Natarajan’s Rajya Sabha information from Madhya Pradesh, helium said, “The BJP has present resorted to spot chori making a mockery of democracy. They snatched the Rajya Sabha spot from the Congress.”
He alleged that the BJP was conspiring to guarantee deletion of astatine slightest 30% to 35% of votes successful the sanction of ‘bogus votes’ connected 1 pretext oregon the different done the Special Intensive Revision (SIR). The Congress cadres should support a tab connected the upcoming workout to safeguard the law close to vote, helium added.
He accused the BJP-led authorities astatine the Centre of misusing Central enforcement agencies to ‘intimidate’ the elected representatives of the Opposition parties successful the non-BJP-ruled States.
Later, the Minister laid the instauration chromatic for a 0.8 MW star powerfulness works and a transformers repair centre astatine the 33/11kV sub-station successful Tirumalayapalem mandal office town.
