Amaravati, Nov. 13 -- YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) president and former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Friday launched a scathing attack on Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and state Education Minister Nara Lokesh, holding the duo directly responsible for the alleged suicide attempt of a female student at a private engineering college in Chittoor.

Taking to social media platform X, Reddy linked the incident, which has triggered student protests in Chittoor, to massive pending arrears under the state's flagship student welfare and fee reimbursement schemes, Jagananna Vidya Deevena and Jagananna Vasathi Deevena.

Demanding Lokesh's immediate removal from the education portfolio, Reddy accused the ruling TDP-led coal...