Overview
- Farmers in Undavalli, Penumaka and nearby Amaravati villages stopped a YSR Congress Party delegation and exchanged stones with party supporters on June 27, forcing the YSRCP leaders to abandon their visit.
- The confrontation left a police constable and others with minor injuries and damaged several vehicles including a YSRCP car windscreen while officers dispersed the crowds and escorted the delegation away.
- YSRCP chief Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy accused Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu of orchestrating the attack, and Mr. Naidu countered that YSRCP leaders had come to 'plot and provoke' angry farmers.
- Police have registered three cases, including a complaint under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act against YSRCP leaders, a booking of Ambati Rambabu for allegedly restraining an officer, and a complaint against TDP leaders for damaging car windows.
- The incident deepens a long-running dispute over the Land Pooling Scheme and Amaravati’s status as capital and leaves farmer grievances, legal probes and inter-party tensions unresolved with the potential to escalate political confrontation.