Ahead of local body elections, YSRCP president and former chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has accused chief minister Chandrababu Naidu of directing the state police apparatus against opposition parties to suppress their activities.

Jagan reached out to Midhun Reddy by telephone after the MP reported being attacked, asking after both the details of what had taken place and his current state of health. He alleged that the coalition government was interfering with the fairness of the forthcoming local body elections, citing what he characterised as growing voter disillusionment after two and a half years of its governance, and further noted that Chandrababu Naidu had a documented history of involvement in adversarial political behaviour.

Some observers have raised questions about how effectively Andhra Pradesh was managed during his time at the helm. Speaking with reporters, Jagan noted that even the party's own Lok Sabha floor leader was without any assigned security cover.

Opponents alleged that the chief minister had leveraged the powers of his position for party benefit, with law enforcement assets said to have been steered toward influencing the electoral result. He claimed that law enforcement personnel looked on without taking action while the violence played out, allowing ruling party supporters to move freely against opposition members and party workers, before raising the question of what safety net existed for ordinary people when a sitting MP and the party's Lok Sabha leader, Peddireddy Midhun Reddy, had himself been unable to secure his own safety within the state.

Addressing what the party described as the misuse of official machinery, the former chief minister indicated the YSRCP would pursue every legal and constitutional avenue available, adding that such incidents would not deter the party's resolve. He announced that the party intended to petition the courts, placing the conditions prevailing in the state before them for consideration.

At a press conference focused on local body election preparations, Jagan put forward the position that deploying Central paramilitary forces would be the appropriate measure to guarantee that voters could cast ballots free from intimidation, disruption, or outside interference. The party intended to bring the matter before the courts, he indicated, so that every candidate would compete on equal terms.

Addressing reporters, the YSRCP leader outlined plans to enter the forthcoming polls with determination, pointing to the party's track record in public service as a foundation that external pressures were unlikely to erode. Jagan put forward the position that Naidu had a history of using violence to undermine the stability of the state.