A 58-year-old man allegedly associated with the Telugu Desam Party has been arrested in Andhra Pradesh’s Kakinada district for sexually harassing a schoolgirl, triggering a political row in the state.

Police identified the suspect as T Narayana Rao. While the YSR Congress Party claimed Rao is a leader of the ruling TDP’s Tuni unit, the latter has not commented on the alleged affiliation.

According to Kakinada Police, Rao went to the girl’s government residential school posing as a distant relative and persuaded her to leave with him to “meet his family”. Instead, he allegedly took her on his scooter to a mango orchard in a nearby town.

There, the orchard owner and workers noticed his “suspicious behaviour” and raised an alarm while recording a video, prompting Rao to hastily drop the mi

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