A spat between the TDP and YSR Congress Party functionaries over the alleged sand mining issue sparked tension at Amaravati town in Pedakurapadu constituency on April 9.
The TDP former MLA Kommalapati Sridhar and ruling occasion MLA Nambur Shankar Rao engaged in a confrontation over the alleged unlawful sand mining. They challenged one another to take a vow at Amaralingeswara Swamy temple at Amaravati to show innocence. Mr. Shankar Rao reached Amaravati by Saturday night time, whereas Mr. Sridhar tried to achieve the temple on Sunday.
But the police, deployed on the temple in the wake of a lot of cadres from each events gathering on the venue, imposed Section 144 and stopped Mr. Sridhar at Krosuru junction, near the temple in Amaravati town, and took him into custody. The TDP activists who reached there in giant numbers resorted to a protest. The police dispersed the YSRCP cadres who have been elevating slogans in opposition to Mr. Sridhar.
The police appealed to each YSRCP and TDP leaders to not come to the town to take a vow or for a debate over the sand mining issue as it could outcome in a legislation and order drawback. But neither of them heeded the enchantment.
Meanwhile, TDP Andhra Pradesh state president Okay Atchannaidu condemned the ‘arrest’ of Mr. Sridhar.
