Amaravati: The YSRCP on Wednesday alleged that the TDP-led NDA government in Andhra Pradesh has served 680 notices to the opposition party’s social media activists, registered 147 cases and arrested 49 of them.
YSRCP supremo Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy alleged that only a few harassment cases came to the fore while a lot more party activists were being oppressed.
Reddy asserted that the government could at most issue a “CrPC 41A notice for a social media post it dislikes”, but it could not allegedly “pick people up and beat them.” “Booking a 41A notice (CrPC) is the maximum it can do. That’s where it ends. You cannot take people and beat them up that’s not acceptable,” Reddy said, speaking at a press conference at his Tadepalli residence.
Reddy emphasized the legal limitations, stating that the government should at most issue a ‘CrPC 41A notice’ for disagreeable social media posts, and it was unacceptable to allegedly physically harm people. He criticized the government’s approach, illustrating the broader issue of oppression against opposition voices.
