Hyderabad:
The N Chandrababu Naidu authorities in Andhra Pradesh has launched an enormous crackdown in opposition to social media posts concentrating on political leaders and their members of the family.
As many as 100 police instances have been registered, 39 individuals arrested and 67 notices issued for social media content material that police say might promote battle between teams.
Many of those posts goal Chief Minister Naidu’s spouse Bhuvaneshwari, his son and minister Lokesh’s spouse Brahmini, Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan’s daughters and in addition state Congress chief YS Sharmila.
Chief minister Naidu has advised his celebration members to stay dignified of their response to the provocative posts.
The Opposition, Jagan Mohan Reddy’s YSRCP, has mentioned their activists have been served with 650 notices, 147 instances have been filed in opposition to them and 49 individuals have been arrested in per week.
Mr Reddy has mentioned that Mr Naidu and the ruling TDP has not fulfilled Tremendous Six guarantees made earlier than the polls. “Why not file a 420 case in opposition to you? If questioned, they are saying they are going to file instances and make arrests. Our celebration leaders, activists and social media activists, together with me, will certainly put up in opposition to you,” he mentioned.
Andhra Police yesterday summoned movie director Ram Gopal Varma for posting morphed pictures of the Chief Minister and the Deputy Chief Minister on social media.
The filmmaker has been requested to seem earlier than the investigation officer subsequent week. He has advised police that he would be part of the probe.
A case has been registered in opposition to the movie director following a criticism by one Ramalingam, who has mentioned the filmmaker’s social media posts undermined the Chief Minister, his deputy and their members of the family.