This development comes after the Andhra Pradesh government furnished a report which showed that TDP MLC G Deepak Reddy tested COVID-19 positive, and ordered him to report for official quarantine immediately.
Telegu Desam Party Chief N Chandrababu Naidu accused the ruling YSRCP government in Andhra Pradesh of conducting "false COVID-19 tests" on its party leaders, and send them to institutional quarantine to take 'political vengeance'.
This development comes after the Andhra Pradesh government furnished a report which showed that TDP MLC G Deepak Reddy tested COVID-19 positive, and ordered him to report for official quarantine immediately.
"The AP government gave a report saying that TDP MLC G Deepak Reddy tested positive and insisted on him to come for official quarantine immediately. This trick was being played on those Opposition leaders coming from the neighbouring states," Naidu said in a statement.
He said that Deepak had already undergone SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR test at two locations in Telangana where he was tested negative, adding that the "ugly face" of the government came to the fore during budget session of Assembly where COVID-19 tests were conducted on TDP's MLAs and MLCs who attended it.
After the alleged mismatch in Deepak's COVID-19 test results between the state agencies and the private lab in Hyderabad, Naidu demanded answers from the ruling party leaders. He also sought an explanation as to why the TDP MLC was sent to quarantine before he tested positive for COVID-19.
"The Deepak Reddy instance throws up doubts whether the YSRCP regime was using COVID-19 tests for taking political vengeance. It was a cheap tactic on the part of the government not to mention which test they have conducted on him," Naidu said.
He further accused the government of showing 'negligence' as it was evident from the alleged corruption scams in COVID test kits purchase and also in the purchase of spurious bleaching powder.
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