Clashes befell between the ruling YSR Congress Occasion staff and Telugu Desam Occasion cadres over the obstruction of a programme organised by the latter, on Friday evening in Macherla city of Andhra Pradesh’s Palnadu district, mentioned police on Saturday.

Following the clashes, the Palnadu police imposed prohibitory orders underneath Part 144 of the Prison Process Code (CrPC) within the city on Saturday.

“Bother started when the YSRCP staff led by Macherla municipal chairman Turaka Kishore allegedly obstructed a celebration programme held close to the municipal workplace by the TDP staff led by constituency in-charge Julakanti Brahma Reddy,” mentioned a police official aware about the matter.

This led to clashes between the 2 teams, mentioned the police official.

The TDP leaders alleged that the YSRCP cadres attacked their staff with stones, sticks and iron rods, and smashed their autos, mentioned the police.

The ruling get together staff additionally set fireplace to the TDP workplace, residence of Brahma Reddy and several other autos of the opposition get together leaders’ autos, mentioned the police.The ruling get together additionally claimed that a few of its staff have been injured within the conflict.

“The police remained mute witnesses to the violent assaults by the ruling get together cadre,” alleged Brahma Reddy.Nonetheless, a police official mentioned that “they’d acted on time and dispersed the warring teams”.

Palnadu superintendent of police Y Ravi Sankar Reddy mentioned: “The violent clashes have been no method linked to politics…they have been results of faction feuds which had been going down within the district for a number of years”. “These faction leaders give it a political color by becoming a member of one get together or the opposite,” he mentioned.

The SP mentioned after getting the data that some faction leaders have been transferring within the space, the police had carried out a cordon and search operation on Friday morning, however couldn’t discover any weapons. “Within the night, a couple of folks underneath the guise of the TDP staff, took half within the get together programme, upsetting the opposite faction. This led to clashes between the 2 teams,” he mentioned.

The SP mentioned extra forces have been deployed within the city and Part 144 has been imposed. “The state of affairs is underneath management. All of the perpetrators shall be booked. An investigation is on within the matter,” he added.

In the meantime, TDP president and former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu condemned the incident. “These sorts of violent assaults on the opposition get together cadres by no means occurred in Macherla. That is peak of anarchy,” he mentioned and alleged that the “police remained mute spectators when the YSRCP goondas have been indulging in vandalism and arson”.

Nonetheless, senior YSRCP chief and lawmaker Kasu Mahesh Reddy blamed the conflict on Naidu. “Naidu visited Palnadu not too long ago and instigated his get together staff to take to the streets. Brahma Reddy has a factional background and he has been going through allegations of instigating murders,” Reddy alleged.