Less than 24 hours after a vessel with 4,000 containers reached Krishnapatnam Port in Nellore district, Telugu Desam Party (TDP) Polit Bureau member Somireddy Chandramohan Reddy called it an “empty rhetoric” by his arch rival and Agriculture Minister Kakani Govardhan Reddy, alleging that the vessel contained empty containers.
Mr. Govardhan Reddy got a container arrival scheduled at the port well within the 15-day ultimatum issued by the all-party delegation, but the TDP leader termed it as merely a face-saving exercise.
Addressing the media here on Saturday, Mr. Chandramohan Reddy produced a communication purportedly between the port officials and the liners as proof.