Andhra Pradesh CM N. Chandrababu Naidu stages sit-in to protest Election Commission bias

Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N.Chandrababu Naidu on Wednesday staged a sit-in here to protest against the Election Commission ‘bias’ in transferring election officials and Income Tax (I-T) raids on his TDP’s leaders. Naidu, also the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief, submitted a representation to Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Gopal Krishna Dwivedi and sat on protest before his office, a day before polling begins for the 175-member Assembly and all 25 Lok Sabha seats in the state.

Naidu told reporters that for the first time the Chief Minister of a state was meeting the CEO to submit a memorandum. Alleging that the poll panel was acting at the behest of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to favour YSR Congress Party (YSRCP), he also claimed that Modi, YSRCP Chief Y.S.Jagan Mohan Reddy and Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao were part of a conspiracy against the TDP. Naidu said Modi had destroyed other institutions and he was now destroying even the Election Commission, which was supposed to conduct elections in an impartial manner. He alleged that there was a grave danger to democracy. (IANS)

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