NELLORE: Municipal administration minister Botsa Satyanarayana on Saturday came down heavily against Leader of the Opposition N. Chandrababu Naidu for hobnobbing with State Election Commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar and weakening the state’s democratic process.
He was in Nellore to take part in various developmental programmes along with Water Resources Minister Dr P. Anilkumar Yadav.
Speaking to media persons, he slammed Naidu for not holding elections although the tenure of the local bodies had ended in 2018 when he was the chief minister.
Satyanarayana rebuked the SEC for preparing to hold the elections when the state government was struggling to contain Covid and was busy with the vaccination programme.
“Nimmagadda has been addressing officials like a political leader forgetting that he is a Commissioner”, he said adding that he had never seen such a situation in his 30-year political career.
He expressed his displeasure over the SEC’s stance against…
