Kodela Siva Prasada Rao known for poll-related violence: YSRC

The violence on the polling day (April 11) was perpetrated and provoked by him as he went inside the polling booth and stay put for hours there increasing tension among the voters waiting outside to cast their vote. When the doors opened, he had staged a drama with his shirt torn and the people could not understand why he had shut himself in the polling booth for so long, Mr Ramachandraiah said. 'When he was Speaker of the State Assembly, he had degraded the institution by behaving like a TD worker and gagged the voice of the Opposition leaders and members, in case of suspension of MLA R.K. Roja. He did not act wisely when 23 MLAs defected and they were no disqualification. His comments that YSRC candidate Ambati Rambabu is not equal to his stature are derogatory and in fact, he was shunted out of his native Narsaraopet constituency. In 2014, he won by a very narrow margin,' he said. On the transport of huge quantity of gold of TTD, seized in Tamil Nadu, he said the CM should speak out on the issue. ... DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: Deccan Chroniclehttps://www.vox.com/users/reetasignaas