Amaravati, Jan 12 : Several Christian minority leaders in Andhra Pradesh castigated Telugu Desam Party (TDP) national president Nara Chandrababu Naidu for his alleged recent religious comments while attacking Chief Minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy.
Besides criticism, TDP lost a longtime minority leader, Philip C. Tocher.
“I am pained to inform you that I am resigning from the TDP’s active membership with immediate effect from this day due to the sudden out blast remarks made by Naidu against Christian community,” wrote Tocher to party state president Kinjarapu Atchannaidu recently.
Tocher requested Atchannaidu to accept his resignation as he has been facing grave questioning by his fellow community members across the state.
He was with TDP since its inception in 1983 and went on to be nominated as the Anglo-Indian MLA during the TDP regime from 2014 to 2019.
A group of people protested in Visakhapatnam at the GVMC Mahatma Gandhi statue demanding Naidu to apologise to the minority community.
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