Nara Lokesh's red book flexie near Tirupati leaves errant officials in a tizzy

TIRUPATI: State IT minister Nara Lokesh's red book flexie, which has come up near a highway close to the temple city of Tirupati, reportedly left a few errant officials in a tizzy on Friday.

It may be recalled that the when the TDP was in the opposition, Nara Lokesh, who was the party's national general secretary, displayed a red book at his every public meeting or rally, and had warned that his red book will contain the names and credentials of all such errant officials, police officers and others, who were going out of the way in terms of appeasing the then ruling YSRCP govt, by illegitimately targeting the TDP leaders and cadres.

In the run-up to the 2024 general elections too, Lokesh had seldom criticized that several police officers were not following the IPC sections but were adhering to the dictum of the ruling party. Similarly, the TDP leader had also criticized that some govt officials were deviating from the constitutional guidelines to favour the YSRCP through various means.

TDP's state official spokesperson Anam Venkataramana Reddy recalled that not only the then ruling YSRCP leaders but also some officials had ridiculed Lokesh's red book warnings.

"But today fear psychosis seems to have caught up with several police officers and govt officials across the state after the TDP led NDA alliance literally swept away the 2024 general elections with a landslide majority and has formed the govt", Anam Venkataramana Reddy observed.

"Our Chief minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu already made it clear that though revenge is not the new govt's intention, officials who deviated from the set customs and blatantly violated the constitutional guidelines during the YSRCP regime will now be subjected to departmental and judicial enquiries. Nara Lokesh's red book flexie near Tirupati is TDP's way of reiterating to the people that those officials whose names feature in the red book will now have to undergo various kinds of scrutiny and action", Anam Venkataramana Reddy underlined.

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