This might sound like a challenge to the YSRCP at an incorrect time. Union minister and Araku Lok Sabha constituency Congress nominee Kishore Chandra Deo’s convoy was reportedly attacked in Araku Valley yesterday.
Sources say that Kishore Chandra Deo and others were travelling in his car from Araku Valley to Paderu for filing his nominations papers for Araku Lok Sabha seat when some alleged supporters of disgruntled Congress aspirant from Araku Valley Assembly segment Setti Gangadhara Swami started attacking the car with sticks.
YSRCP’s rally was passing by closely to support YSRC’s Araku Assembly candidate Kidari Sarveswara Rao whose supporters also joined in the attack. Police resorted to lathicharge for dispersing the crowd.
Escaping from the attack, Deo reportedly said that it was an attack on democracy and not against him while he reportedly alleged that YSRC activists along with Kidari Sarveswara Rao tried to kill him! The response from YSRCP is awaited.
