Communist Party Of India (Marxist) state secretary B V Raghavulu, on Saturday, criticised the state government's move to provide legal assistance to 4 tainted ministers, who were served notices by the Supreme Court in connection with 26 controversial GOs favouring amassing of alleged illegal wealth by YSR Congress president Jaganmohan Reddy.
Talking to media persons at the state Secretariat, Raghavulu alleged that while providing legal assistance to tainted ministers, the government was showing a negligent attitude towards ministers from Backward Classes, especially IT minister Ponnala Lakshmaiah and former excise minister Mopidevi Venkata Ramana Rao.
He questioned why the government was discriminating against BC ministers while providing legal help to others, and asserted that the government ought to treat all ministers on par with one other.
Raghavulu demanded that the government immediately withdraw plans of issuing a GO extending legal assistance to tainted ministers. He opined that the allegedly corrupt ministers directly face investigations in the Supreme Court and come out clean from those charges.
The CPI (M) leader also appealed to chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy to protect the villages that surround the Ramky Group's Pharma City in Visakhapatnam, from pollution. He submitted a memorandum to the CM in this connection, and appealed to him to take steps in this direction. (INN)
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