We have seen in the past some film personalities have paid a visit to Padayatra of Andhra Pradesh state opposition leader YS Jagan Mohan Reddy and voiced out their support to him. Tollywood’s writer turned artist Posani Krishna Murali was one among them who walked along with Jagan Mohan Reddy at his Praja Sankalpa Yatra in West Godavari district and sent out an indication that he’s supporting him in Andhra.

It’s known that Jagan Mohan Reddy was stabbed on his left shoulder by a person named Srinivas (from West Godavari) at Vishakhapatnam airport on Thursday morning. On Friday, the Posani spoke to a media channel and condemned the ‘knife attack’ on Reddy. During this interview, Posani also spoke about actor turned politician and Jana Sena chief Pawan Kalyan and alleged that the AP government has ignored and made fun of Pawan Kalyan when he spoke about ‘death threats’ he’s been getting.

He further went onto praise Pawan for exiting film industry and crores of remuneration to serve the people of state. ‘Pawan is one of the highly-earning actors of India and he easily gets an annual salary up to 150 Crores. But, putting aside all the luxuries, he decided to jump into the political bandwagon. That itself tells the intention behind Pawan’s political entry. If Pawan Kalyan agrees to give his dates, I’m ready to offer him a whopping remuneration.’

Finally, Posani added: ‘If at all Pawan tells something, it’s genuine and carries some truth. His immense popularity and craze explains that. So, when Pawan pointed out that he’s life-threat, it must have been true. So, the Andhra government should consider providing the Z-category security for Pawan.

YSR Congress party on Friday declared that the attack on the life of party president and leader of Opposition Y S Jaganmohan Reddy would be made an election issue and it would not rest till the Chandrababu Naidu is pulled down from power.

Addressing separate press conferences, YSRC leaders said Naidu’s past was laden with vindictive killings and his hands were soaked blood of political adversarie.

“We are not going to be cowed down by such cowardly acts but our resolve to fight injustice has further be strengthened as we strongly feel that there is a conspiracy angle to the incident involving the TDP leadership,” they said.

They wondered why Naidu had raised irrelevant things such as why leaders of neighbouring state or Delhi condemn the incident first, why it should be made an issue or what the greatness of Jagan was and so on. It only showed his vindictive, cruel and inhuman nature, they said.

“Chandrababu Naidu has the history of eliminating Vangaveti Mohan Ranga, Pingali Dasaratharam and others who were his adversaries and in Ananthapur district itself there were more than 470 political murders and no cases were booked,” they said.

They said the YSRC would make the attack and the TDP government response as an issue in the coming elections and take it to the people as the conspiracy angle is crystal clear

The public outrage over the attack on YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy at Visakhapatnam airport on Thursday and the decision of the party leaders to expose the conspiracy behind it in public has shaken Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.

So much so that Naidu has decided to rush to New Delhi on Saturday to meet all the leaders of his so-called federal front parties, including Congress president Rahul Gandhi.

He would also address the national media at the Constitutional Club in Delhi to pre-empt any attack by the opposition parties including YSRC and the Bharatiya Janata Party on him and his government.

Apparently, Naidu wants to raise a hue and cry at the national level saying that the Bharatiya Janata Party government at the Centre was indulging in witch-hunting of his party and the government by enacting high dramas.

He would tell the media and the friendly parties that the Narendra Modi government might try to dismiss his government and impose President’s Rule in the state in the name of breakdown of law and order following the attack on Jagan.

It appears Naidu got an alert that Governor E S L Narasimhan, who rushed to Delhi on Friday morning, submitted a report on the state of affairs in Andhra Pradesh, including the attack on Jagan, to Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The CISF also reportedly submitted a report to the Home Ministry over the Vizag incident.

This led to Naidu fearing that the Centre might take serious action against the government. Hence, the panic reaction.