![A video grab showing the attacker threatening the TDP team led by Somireddy Chandramohan Reddy with a crowbar, at Kattuvapalli village in Manubolu mandal of Tirupati district on Tuesday. A video grab showing the attacker threatening the TDP team led by Somireddy Chandramohan Reddy with a crowbar, at Kattuvapalli village in Manubolu mandal of Tirupati district on Tuesday.](https://www.thehindu.com/theme/images/th-online/1x1_spacer.png)
A video seize displaying the attacker threatening the TDP workforce led by Somireddy Chandramohan Reddy with a crowbar, at Kattuvapalli village in Manubolu mandal of Tirupati district on Tuesday.
A YSRCP native chief reportedly made a futile try and assault TDP polit bureau member and former Cupboard Minister Somireddy Chandramohan Reddy on Tuesday, sending shockwaves in political circles.
The incident occurred at Kattuvapalli in Manubolu mandal of Nellore district, the place the attacker, recognized as Venkataiah, allegedly accosted the workforce led by Mr. Chandramohan Reddy which entered the village to lift consciousness on the TDP’s ‘Babu Surety Bhavishyathuku Guarantee’ programme. Because it occurs, the village falls beneath Sarvepalli constituency, the place Mr. Chandramohan Reddy has been the TDP candidate for over a decade.
“The shocking incident was the result of frustration within the ruling party, as many of their sympathisers are joining our party,” Mr. Chandramohan Reddy advised the media. He additionally recalled the harm carried out to the TDP flex banners erected all around the village and the alleged assault on one other native chief named Mahendra.
Nevertheless, the Manubolu police booked instances in opposition to 5 TDP activists, primarily based on a criticism lodged by a rival gang. Circumstances had been booked beneath SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and IPC 307. The TDP lodged a criticism in Nellore.