Vijayawada, Oct 21: Telugu Desam Party National President and former Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu Today began his 36-hour ‘deeksha’ in the TDP office, located at Mangalagiri near here, demanding the Central Government to intervene to save the people of Andhra Pradesh from the drug mafia and from the undemocratic and fascist YSRCP regime.

Mr Naidu said that Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy was growing impatient over the increasing public resentment against his government’s atrocities, allround corruption and attacks on all constitutional institutions.

Tuesday’s attack on TDP main office was not a sporadic or isolated incident but a culmination of two- and-half-years of lawless, anarchic and oppressive regime, he said.

Addressing the party leaders and cadres on the occasion, the TDP Chief reminded the Centre that the dark activities of the AP ganja mafia was not limited to the state but spread to Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and other States.

He said the youth of the country and the whole race would get devitalised and enervated if it was not protected from the internal aggression by the drug smuggling gangs.

Mr Naidu reiterated his demand for invoking Article 356 since AP in its present situation was a fit case for imposition of the President’s rule.

The TDP had never made such a demand in the past and it was not in the habit of making such momentous demands considering the need to overlook stray mistakes by some individuals.

The former Chief Minsiter recalled how the Hyderabad Police Commissioner had talked about ganja supply from dens in Narsipatnam, Paderu, Sileru and other places in the state. The Central agencies seized 3,000 kg of heroin at Mundra port, when it was being transported in the name of a Vijayawada firm. Each kg of it was costing Rs. 8 crore to Rs 10 crore.

Mr Naidu told the Centre that the Jagan Mohan Reddy headed YSRCP regime was responsible for the organised mafia gangs which were exploiting drugs, sand, liquor, land, mine and all resources in the state.

Wherever ganja was seized in the country, its origin was traced to Andhra Pradesh. Ganja valued at Rs. 8,000 Crore was being cultivated in over 25,000 acres in the State. They were using exclusive WhatsApp groups to deliver ganja all over the country, he said.

Stressing the need for saving democratic spirit, the leader of the opposition said that he had seen many Chief Ministers but nobody caused such permanent damage as Mr Reddy was doing now. Irreparable damage and destruction was being done in the state because of the Chief Minister’s short sighted, money minded approach and he was using his own companies to sell his own spurious liquor brands through his own regime’s shops, the TDP Chief alleged.

Mr Naidu also alleged that that the state-sponsored terrorism by the Chief Minister and the DGP was reaching new heights in the state these days.

A Member of Parliament became a victim of custodial torture. YSRCP’s own MP Raghu Rama Raju was taken into unlawful custody and beaten up during night hours. The YSRCP regime made countless attacks on the autonomy of Courts, Election Commission, Opposition parties and general public.

A Dalit doctor Dr Sudhakar was put to psychological and financial torture till his death by the YSRCP government, he alleged.(UNI)