Upping the ante on corruption in the nine-year Congress rule, former
Chief Minister and TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu has dared Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy for a public debate on television.

Resuming his padayatra after a two-day break, he said both Congress and YSRC, as chips of the same block.

Targeting AICC president Sonia Gandhi, he said one warning from her would have restrained YSR. With her encouragement, YSR’s corruption became rampant.

Countering the contention of the charge-sheeted Ministers that they had signed files at the behest of the then Chief Minister and feigning ignorance about behind the screen manipulations, he asked, “How much did you get in the deals? .

Naidu demanded that the Chief Minister apologise for charging the TDP with opposing SC/ST Sub-Plan Act or produce documentary evidence. What the TDP demanded was the sub-plan for Madiga and its sub-castes in proportion to population, he said.

Accusing the Congress of playing havoc with the power sector, he predicted that the power scenario would worsen in the next one year. Apart from waiver of farm loans, tenant farmers would be provided interest-free loans if he was voted to power, he said.