YSR Congress leaders have asked its party cadre to intensify the signature campaign in support of Jagan.
YSR Congress leaders have asked its party cadre to keep away from New Year celebrations in protest against the "undemocratic" arrest of party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, and has asked it to instead intensify the signature campaign in support of Jagan.
"In the wake of the undemocratic arrest Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, and the political vendetta of vested interests in filing multiple charge-sheets and using the CBI as a tool to settle political scores, the cadre should keep away from celebrations, and must intensify the one-crore signature campaign," party leaders Mekapati Rajmohan Reddy, D A Somayajulu, Bajireddy Goverdhan and Janak Prasad told reporters on Sunday.
Boycotting the New Year celebrations is a mark of protest against the nexus between the Congress and the TDP to keep Y S Jaganmohan Reddy away from the people and the CBI functioning against its own manual to please its political bosses, they said.
They allegged that though Y S Jaganmohan Reddy was the 52nd accused, the CBI had shown him as the first accused, and did not care to arrest the persons who had actually signed the GOs. They remarked that the state government's "behaviour" when it stated to the Supreme Court that the 26 GOs were legal was Quixotic .
"There were efforts to scuttle the bail plea of Y S Jaganmohan Reddy at the Supreme Court, High Court and the CBI special court. The CBI, in its protracted investigation, could not find out anything new other than what our leader had declared in the IT returns, or what was stated in the affidavit while contesting the Lok Sabha elections," they said.
"The CBI's functioning has been raising many questions. It has been very selective in arrests, and the four charge-sheets is a phenomenon by itself," they said.
"All this is a political conspiracy only to defame YSR's family members. The signature campaign is to mobilise public opinion against the discrimination Y S Jaganmohan Reddy is facing. Nearly 30 lakh signatures have been collected so far, and on the New Year, the campaign should be intensified," they said, adding that the letter with one crore signatures would be submitted to President Pranab Mukherjee as a memorandum.
"The CBI has distorted the High Court's direction on the PIL filed by political adversaries, TDP and Congress, and has never been consistent on any charge. It could get no evidence despite its best efforts, while the government itself has been speaking in two voices," they alleged.
They appealed to the cadre, Jagan's sympathizers and well-wishers to shun from New Year celebrations to protest Jagan's arrest and his confinement to jail "beyond the permissible term". (INN)