The YSRC accuses the Congress of trying to make its own ministers scapegoats in a bid to delay bail to Jaganmohan Reddy.
The YSR Congress party has accused the Congress government of "shoddy governance", and of trying to make its own ministers scapegoats in a bid to delay bail to Y S Jaganmohan Reddy.
"Leaving the state in a lurch with its multiple problems, the chief minister and other leaders are camping in Delhi to accomplish their personal agenda. The conspiracy to delay bail to Y S Jaganmohan Reddy is in the open, as ministers are being named one after the other in CBI chargesheets," party spokesperson Ambati Rambabu told reporters on Friday.
"While the state is reeling under an unprecedented power crisis, with domestic, industrial and agriculture consumers bearing the brunt; and governance is scrambling in darkness, the leaders are busy in Delhi to please the high command for their personal benefits," he said.
"Congress has to take the permission of the high command to accept the resignation of Roads & Buildings minister Dharmana Prasad Rao, who was named in the chargesheet by CBI. This shows that the ruling party is at its old game plan, and is prepared to victimise cabinet ministers with an apparent reason to delay the judicial process of Y S Jaganmohan Reddy," he added.
"Legal experts point out that Article 163 is categorical that the cabinet decision is a collective responsibility, and that it cannot be challenged, but the Congress is slowly trying redefine the process with the sole aim of targeting Y S Jaganmohan Reddy. In the process, it has sent one minister to jail, another is on his way, and some more may join," he said.
"The entire exercise is only to get mileage by showcasing that it did not even spare their cabinet ministers, but the move will backfire as their design of trying to show ministers as the accused, only to target Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, will misfire," he said.
"The Congress will meet the same fate that it has suffered in Tamil Nadu (the last chief minister being Baktavatsalam in 1969) and West Bengal (where the party's era ended with Sidharth Shankar Ray in 1977)," he said, adding that the political events in AP are heading the same way.
He added, "Our party demands that the chief minster and his cabinet colleagues shun their Delhi trips and attend to the burning issues of the state." (INN)