YSR Cong Objects To CAG Report

The YSR Congress, on Friday, took strong objection to the way in which the CAG annual report for the year ending 31 March 2011 included the land allotments during 2006-11, ahead of the CBI filing a charge sheet in the controversial case of 26 GOs.

"It is the annual ritual that CAG submits its annual report, which will be circulated on the last day of the budget session, pinpointing some of the lapses the state has committed during the year. Here, the CAG has given a report on land allotments, besides other issues, for the past 5 years, and the timing is raising many questions," party official spokesperson Vasireddy Padma told reporters in Hyderabad.

"However, it is for the government to defend the charges," she said, adding that a section of the media "has been on the prowl with its single-minded interpretation to defame YSR and his family members."

"The report has come out as per schedule, but a section of the media and TDP have been blowing things out of proportion and are trying to provide fodder to the CBI investigating the case," she said.

She alleged that when Chandrababu Naidu was the Chief Minister, the CAG had passed many adverse and stinging remarks, but that Naidu had made light of them and had said "we need not take them seriously."

Today, when the same CAG has passed some remarks on land allotments, which are being disputed in the court, and into which the CBI is inquiring, Naidu suddenly realizes that the CAG is a very authentic agency and that its report must be followed in letter and spirit, she remarked. (INN)