Tensions continue in Palnadu district even after three days of polling. Incidents like attacks, clashes, destruction of property and burning of vehicles continue. While police seized a large number of bombs in the houses of YCP leaders’ houses, they recovered a stone-laden vehicle in Macherla.
Ruling party leaders are resorting to indiscriminate attacks against those who voted against them. People panicked when they saw Macharla MLA Pinnelli Ramakrishna Reddy raiding Karampudi in broad daylight with hundreds of people. Gurazala MLA Kasu Mahesh Reddy and MP candidate Anilkumar Yadav went on a raid with hundreds of people to the village of Kotha Ganeshunipadu in Machavaram mandal.
The police force failed to conduct the polls peacefully by deploying forces on the polling day, and was also unable to prevent the subsequent incidents. Bombs created commotion in Pinnelli village of Machavaram mandal. Police found raw bombs and petrol bombs in the houses of YSRCP leaders of the village.
The police went to the village to investigate the post-election clashes and tried to arrest those responsible. YSRCP activists seem to have prepared these bombs for destruction on polling day.
The village of Pinnelli was the most problematic from the beginning. After YSRCP came to power in 2019, due to frequent attacks by YCP activists, TDP cadres left the village and went to Hyderabad and Guntur. Even the police could not protect them. TDP cadres returned to the village only recently after the police provided protection on the orders of the High Court.
Meanwhile, police caught a trolley auto full of stones and empty beer bottles near the house of MLA Pinnelli Ramakrishna Reddy. It is learned that Pinnelli took the same vehicle on his raid in Karampudi along with his convoy and YCP leaders attacked the TDP workers. The fear of the people of the villages under Macherla constituency has not gone away till now.
On the other hand, police restrictions are continuing with the imposition of Section 144 in Macherla area of the district. The police marched through the main roads of the town. Police have put up barricades in Macherla town and are checking vehicles.
