'Nagarjuna is a land grabber'

Ina surprising development, Telugu Desam Party on Tuesday made a scathingattack on film hero Nagarjuna for campaigning for Lok Satta in the GHMCelections.

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

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