Referring to the involvement of Telangana government in the alleged ‘data theft’ issue and harassing employees of IT Grids as well as Andhra people doing business in Telangana, AP Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu said that the Telangana Rashtra Samithi is resorting to “mental torture” tactics to destabilise AP government.
Pointing out the cases against AP government and the alleged misuse of “voters data”, he said that the Telangana government and the Centre is trying to “damage Andhra Pradesh economically because it is doing well in all indicators. If they (TRS and Telangana government) really have so much love for my state and my people, then they should be paying the power dues amounting to Rs. 5000 crore to AP government first. This will help a revenue deficit state likes ours, instead of these cases and making our life more difficult here, in a new state when we are faced with enormous challenges.”
According to Chandrababu, “The Government of India and the Telangana government are causing mental torture and killing the leadership. This is atrocious…attacking persons, foisting cases, terrorising them… who gave you this authority?,” he questioned, adding that “how can one state involve in the internal matters of another state? It is breach of sovereign rights of a state and anti-democratic.”
Urging the immediate intervention of the Election Commission in the issue, he said that even legitimate voter’s are being removed from the list. “They have stolen my party’s data, they dismantled my service providers. It is a planned approach to destroy everything, systematically. The vendetta is being plotted against my state. They have stolen my data and handed it over to the Opposition..”
Responding fiercely to how YSRCP is colluding with TRS and BJP to hit AP economically and politically, he said: “At the same time they are blaming the state government for data breach? Who are they (TRS) to blame? I am here to protect my data. We are very clear having 65 lakh cadre data. Only service and education and insurance are monitored. This is a serious crime by these people (TRS, YSRCP and BJP),” he added.
