Statue of former Chief Minister vandalised in Nandyal, suspect held

The statue of erstwhile Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy was reportedly vandalised successful wide daylight astatine Srinivasa Nagar Main Circle successful Nandyal municipality connected Sunday.

According to the police, Ch. Jambulaiah, a nonmigratory of Chakalipeta successful Nandyal town, has been identified arsenic the idiosyncratic liable for the act. He allegedly climbed onto the statue level and damaged the statue utilizing a stone. The caput of the statue was allegedly severed and it was displayed to the onlookers by the accused, creating a disturbance among the onlookers.

Police rushed to the spot and took Jambulaiah into custody. They fishy that the accused is mentally disturbed and addicted to alcohol.

Leaders and activists of the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) gathered astatine the tract and staged a dharna demanding stringent enactment against those responsible. They alleged that supporters of the ruling enactment were down the vandalism.

The TDP leaders refuted the allegations, saying that it was an enactment of an idiosyncratic with nary governmental connection. The idiosyncratic was taken into custody and an probe is nether way.