Chandrababu Naidu asked the task force to act tough on the red sanders smugglers but did not expect that 20 of them would be killed by the task force attracting national attention and putting Naidu in a spot of bother.
While it is natural for any chief Minister to ask his administration to clamp down on anti-social elements, there is also a political motive behind this decision, allegedly.
One of the kingpins involved in the red sanders smuggling is said to be a distant relative of YS Rajasekhar Reddy.
Once this fact came to the notice of Naidu, he is said to have given instructions to the task force to curtail the smuggling activities of this person in Seshachalam at any cost.
The police went into overdrive and the result is there for everyone to see. Naidu clearly might not have anticipated such a result.
