YSR Congress has demanded Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu to appoint an expert committee to find out whether or not the toxic formalin is present in the products of his family-run Heritage Foods and come clean instead of threatening people who voice their concern with defamation cases.

“He should categorically state whether the Kerala Government has banned products of Heritage Foods as they contain the toxic element of formalin which may lead to cancer and other such life-threatening diseases. He should ask an experts’ committee to certify that the products are safe and until then, they should be taken out of the shelves,” party MLA G Srikanth Reddy told reporters in Hyderabad on Thursday.

Naidu stating that he has no livestock is nothing short of insulting the farmers and he should try to come clean instead of threatening our leaders, who raised the issue, with defamation case. Shifting the blame on farmers is very heinous on part of the Chief Minister who is in the habit of taking credit of the good work of bureaucrats and shifting onus on them for his failures.

Safety measures should be followed in any industry and they cannot be ignored for the reason that the Company is owned by Chief Minister’s family members. We demand that the products should be withdrawn from the market unless a safety certificate is given by the experts, he said.