Telugu Desam Party (TDP) national president N. Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday condemned the arrest of party leaders, who included former Ministers and MLAs, who were on their way to attend the last rites of the slain activist Kancherla Jalaiah in Palnadu district.
In a statement, Mr. Naidu held the ruling party MLA from Macherla, P. Ramakrishna Reddy, responsible for the murder of Jalaiah, who hailed from the Backward Castes, and alleged that five persons from the community had been done to death so far in Macherla alone.
Mr. Naidu denounced the police and other officials for “keeping the family members of Jalaiah in the dark about the whereabouts of his body,” and questioned the authorities for preventing the family from cremating the body in their native village.
