Telugu Desam Party (TDP) national general secretary Nara Lokesh has accused the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) of spreading canards over the TDP’s alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), in a bid to create confusion among the minorities.
Several Muslim leaders belonging to Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) joined the TDP at the behest of the party’s Nandyal MLA candidate N. Md. Farooq on Friday. Mr. Lokesh invited the leaders into the party fold by draping them with party shawls, referring to their ‘key contribution’ in forming a ‘people’s government’.
The TDP leader rubbished the YSRCP’s claim that their alliance with the BJP would prove a bane on the religious minorities and flayed the ruling party for trying to create confusion with such inflammatory statements.
