Y S Jaganmohan Reddy called on Governor E S L Narasimhan seeking that he direct the AP govt to order a CBI probe into the murders of YSR Congress leaders.
YSR Congress Party president and Leader of the Opposition in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly Y S Jaganmohan Reddy called on Governor E S L Narasimhan at Raj Bhavan on Monday seeking that he direct the Andhra Pradesh government to order a CBI probe into the murders of YSRCP leaders.
In his memorandum, Jagan complained that the TDP had unleashed a reign of terror against the YSRCP cadre since the TDP came to power on 8th June, 2014.
"We raised this issue on the floor of the Assembly and in many other forums, despite which the situation is going from bad to worse in several parts of the state. The state government has been using all tactics to terrorise our cadre at their will as there is nobody to take them to task," he said.
"The latest incident in the Ananthapur district, where a senior YSRCP functionary, Rapthadu mandal Convener Bhumireddy Prasada Reddy, was murdered on 29th April brings to the fore the impunity with which the TDP government has been letting loose terror in the state. This is the 8th murder in the Ananthapur district post elections, and the irony is that the DGP hails from this very same district. The only reason he was eliminated was in the hope that there will be nobody in the future who can challenge the TDP in that constituency. Having murdered Prasad Reddy for political gain, the government is now desperately trying to paint that this was a routine factional murder," Jagan complained.
Further, the YSRCP chief alleged that on 31st March, one Vijaya Bashkar Reddy, President of the Kistipadu Village Cooperative Society, was murdered by the TDP cadre.
"In this incident, too, Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy was called to the society by the paid secretary and forced to resign from the president post, and upon his refusal, was murdered then and there by the TDP people. It is widely believed that a Station House Officer had personally carried out this ghastly murder, and that this is happening in a district from where the state DGP is hailing is a matter of even greater concern," he alleged.
Jagan claimed that no action had been taken in any of those murders.
"Unless these state-sponsored murders are checked and action is taken against those responsible, the government and the TDP cadre are going to get even bolder," he said. (INN)