'Nagarjuna is a land grabber'

In a surprising development, Telugu Desam Party on Tuesday made a scathing attack on film hero Nagarjuna for campaigning for Lok Satta in the GHMC elections.

TDP MLAs P Kesav and P Revanth Reddy described Nagarjuna as a big land grabber. They pointed out that Nagarjuna had encroached upon 16 acres of Gurukul Trust lands at Madhapur worth crores of rupees and got them regularised using his good offices with former chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy. In return, the hero had done a few promotional advertisement films for the Congress government before elections, obviously to benefit the ruling party.

“Now, he is doing campaign for Lok Satta. How can Jayaprakash Narayan, who cries from the roof top about money and caste power, utilise the services of Nagarjuna in the campaign?” they asked. The TDP leaders challenged the Lok Satta to verify the accounts of the TDP and prove illegal collection of party funds. “He has no stature to compete with our party president N Chandrababu Naidu. We are enough to answer all his queries,” they said.