AP: BJP writes to EC over the kidnapping of leader from Badvel

Hyderabad: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has written to the Election Commission of India (EIC) over the alleged kidnapping of one of its mandal president, Rama Krishna Reddy, from the Badvel assembly constituency. The opposition party also alleged that there is ongoing misuse of government machinery in the election campaign by Andhra Pradesh minister Peddireddy Ramchandra Reddy from the ruling YSR Congress Party (YSRCP).
On Tuesday, AP state president of the BJP Somu Veeraju wrote to the Director-General of Police(DGP) complaining of the same kidnapping. Somu wrote in the letter that a party leader and ex-MLA Jaya Ramulu and Neelakanta informed him that the BJP Mandal president Kalasapadu, Badvel constituency, had been reportedly kidnapped in the morning. The saffron party blamed the Panchayath Raj minister Peddireddy Ramachandra Reddy, Avinash Reddy and other YSRCP leaders.
He said that the two politicians who informed him of the kidnapping have been trying to contact Rama Krishna Reddy since morning, however, his phone was switched off.
Furthermore, the BJP state president claimed that the volunteers of Kalasapadu informed him that earlier they saw Peddireddy Ramachandra Reddy and other YSRCP leaders entering the house of the kidnapped BJP leader. Subsequently, the orange men reportedly rushed from Porumamilla to Kalasapadu and at the outskirts of the place saw the convoy of vehicles Peddireddy Ramachandra Reddy and Avinash Reddy taking away the “kidnapped BJP leader with three others.” Subsequently, the volunteers reportedly reached the home of Ramakrishna Reddy and discovered that the minister Peddireddy Ramachandra Reddy, MP Avinash Redy and other YSRCP leaders forcibly took Ramakrishna Reddy and three other party workers in their vehicle and left.
“They threatened with dire consequences, abused them and intimidated them if they participated in the election process. All the persons conspire together and committed the offence they used undue influence over Ramakrishna Reddy and others and dragged them outside of the house,” they said.