Guntur, Oct. 24 -- YSRCP Guntur District President and former Minister Ambati Rambabu slammed the Chandrababu Naidu government for destroying democracy through collusion between the ruling TDP, police and the State Election Commission.

Addressing the media at his camp office in Guntur, he charged that the SEC had become a puppet in Chandrababu's hands, facilitating forced unanimous elections through violence and intimidation.

Despite Supreme Court directions to protect candidates, YSRCP nominees were prevented from filing nominations, their papers torn in police presence and the media barred from nomination centres to conceal TDP atrocities. Police placed opposition leaders under house arrest while facilitating ruling-party candidates, ...