Telugu Desam Party (TDP) National President and former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu embarked on a 12-hour ‘Nirsana Deeksha’ at Dharna Chowk here on Thursday demanding the YSRCP government to introduce free sand policy.
Mr Naidu began his Nirsana Deeksha at 0800 hours in protest against the scarcity for sand and demanding the government to reintroduce the free sand policy which his TDP government implemented previously.
He also demanded the government for disbursement of compensation of Rs.25 lakh to the bereaved families of construction workers who died due to various reasons including suicides as their livelihood has been deprived by the sand scarcity.
Addressing the gathering, he said that sand scarcity crippled the construction sector and its allied sectors in
