The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) has blamed the ‘mining mafia’ for causing a drain on the State exchequer by mining gravel more than the permitted level in the erstwhile combined district of Kadapa.
The party leaders accused the YSR Congress party of shielding the mafia and allowing the plunder of national wealth.
The party’s district president, R. Sreenivasa Reddy, accompanied by State Organising Secretaries B. Hariprasad, S. Govardhan Reddy, constituency in-charge leaders V.S. Ameer Babu (Kadapa) and Praveen Kumar Reddy (Proddatur), met District Collector V. Vijayarama Raju and submitted a representation to him in this regard, seeking his intervention in curbing the menace.
