Vijayawada, Jan 9 (UNI) Telugu Desam Party National President and former Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday condemned the manner in which the police were targeting the Arya Vysya kirana shop owners at Ramalayam Temple in Yetigairampeta village of Golugonda mandal in Visakhapatnam district.
Mr. Naidu termed it as unfortunate that even the temple priest's name was included in the FIR that was registered out of clear political vendetta. “The two shop owners, Polisetti Kanaka Rajju and Polisetti Santosh, were taken into custody, detained at the police station and were being persecuted in the name of the cases”, he slammed.
In a statement here, the former Chief Minister deplored that even the elderly shop owners aged around 69 years, who had been rendering their services in front of the temple for many years, were not being spared. Alarmingly, the accused persons were being branded as the TDP sympathisers in order to target them.