Amaravati: Telugu Desam Party (TDP) Andhra Pradesh unit Chief Kinjarapu Atchannaidu was on Tuesday arrested in connection with a gram panchayat election-related case in which he was facing a charge of alleged criminal intimidation.
Atchannaidu was listed an accused, along with 21 others, in the case in Nimmada village in Srikakulam district, police sources said.
Already 11 other TDP workers have been arrested in the case, they said.
The allegation against the accused was that they threatened the ruling YSR Congress candidate K Appanna against filing his nomination for the sarpanch post in Nimmada.
An alleged telephonic conversation, wherein Atchannaidu threatened Appanna was also leaked.
Atchannaidu and Appanna are closely related and some of the main accused in the case too are kinfolks.
The sarpanch post was never contested in previous polls over the last three decades as Nimmada is the native village of Atchannaidu and his late brother and former Union Minister K…