Sajjala slams TD for linking drug seizure at Mundra Port to AP
The name of an independent director of Heritage company of the Naidu family was mentioned in the Panama Papers
Vijayawada: State government adviser for public affairs Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy on Tuesday slammed the Opposition Telugu Desam party for linking the drug seizure at Mundra port to Andhra Pradesh.
Speaking to the media here, the government adviser made it clear that despite state government’s denial of its involvement in the drug scandal, the Opposition TD continued making baseless allegations against the state government.
This, he said, raised suspicion on the involvement of TD, as its chief Chandrababu Naidu was having a dubious history of hoarding money abroad. “Naidu’s son Lokesh visited Dubai on a secret tip recently. This raised doubts on Naidu’s family entering into the questionable business deals.”
Reacting sharply to TD raising the Pandora papers issue vis-à-vis the YSRC, he said a person by name Alisha was an acquaintance of Naidu and former minister Ganta Srinivas. Naidu’s criticism of chief minister Jagan, implicating him in Wikileaks, Paradise Papers, Panama Papers and Pandora Papers, was just part of the TD’s attempts to defame the CM. The name of an independent director of Heritage company of the Naidu family was mentioned in the Panama Papers, he said.
The government adviser said the central agencies were taking up an investigation and would identify the culprits behind these acts, and added that the YSRC government was firm on curbing the supply of ganja in the state. He said that a special enforcement bureau was set up to control all such illegal acts and added that so far nearly 2.50lakh kg of ganja was seized since the inception of SEB in the state.