There is no doubt that the ruling YCP leaders have spread baseless and illogical rumours over floodwaters entering Chandrababu Naidu’s residence in Krishna river bank. The fact is that such a situation will arise only in extraordinary circumstances when an unusual flood occurs. There is no immediate such threat as per flood estimates.
On the other hand, TDP leaders alleged that YCP leaders deliberately forced officials to keep flood gates closed at Prakasam barrage so that floodwaters will enter Naidu residence. This is part of YCP’s obsessive politics to get Naidu family evacuated from his present residence. This is also an indefensible argument. Huge floods occurred in the past but that had not led to the permanent evacuation of residents from Karakatta buildings including Mantena Satyanarayana Raju Ashram which has hundreds of rooms in multi-storeyed buildings there.

YCP MP Vijayasai Reddy worsened the situation with his Tweets saying that Chandrababu had shifted his family to Hyderabad because of flooding of his residence in Karakatta. Analysts say that the YCP leaders are using even floods to provoke and embarrass Opposition. The ruling party leaders are forgetting the fact that the government should be solely preoccupied with flood relief activities to reduce human misery. Because of their flood politics, now rumours are circulating that only after Centre brought pressure that state officials released floodwaters from Prakasam barrage. Is it not alarming?