Emails urging US police to arrest CM Naidu create flutter

Anonymous emails asking  Mayor of Irving, Texas  Mr.Beth Van Duyne to arrest Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu who is on visit to that city as a part of week long  official visit to several parts of USA has created a flutter in the Indian community in that Texas city on Sunday. The emails purportedly sent by the social media wing of opposition party YSR Congress demanded his arrest holding him responsible for the death of several red sanders smugglers in the state and also for collecting huge donations from US citizens without permission.

According to sources in Telugudesam Party (TDP) here the emails were sent in the name of “Indians Fighting for Human Rights” blamed Naidu for the death of 25 labourers in the Seshachalam forests on the foot hills of Tirumala two year ago. “The Mayor after receiving the mails has passed on the information to the Irving police who immediately rushed to the Convention center where Naidu was meeting several noted NRIs and American investors who are interested in funding projects in Amaravati,” a senior party functionary at the NTR Trust Bhavan said.

The police, after reaching the convention center said to have realized that the programme was actually official and there is no illegal collection of donations at the meet. “Instead of taking action on the AP officials they actually provided security to Naidu till the investors meet was completed. The US security agencies generally won’t provide security to provincial level leaders. In fact the email actually helped