Naidu defers white paper on law and order after YSRCP activist’s brutal murder

HYDERABAD: Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu put off a scheduled release of the state government’s white paper on the law and order situation on Thursday afternoon after the opposition YSR Congress stepped up its attack on the Telugu Desam Party, alleging that the man seen brutally killing a YSR Congress activist on a busy road was a member of the ruling party. Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu was due to release the white paper on law and order on Thursday afternoon YSRCP youth wing leader Sheikh Rasheed was hacked to death by Sheikh Jilani at about 8:30pm on Wednesday at a crowded Mandlamudi bus stand in Vinukonda town of Andhra Pradesh’s Palnadu district. YSRCP president and former chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, who was in Bengaluru for the last two days, returned to Tadepalli and said \he would call on Rasheed’s family at Vinukonda on Friday. On whose authority, did they implement the ‘Red Book Constitution’ and weaken all the mechanisms including the police?” Home minister Vangalapudi Anitha hit back, alleging that the Vinukonda incident smacked of a conspiracy by the YSRCP to create unrest and to defame the Chandrababu Naidu government.