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AP: Jagan casts ballot in Presidential poll

Press Trust of India | Posted on Jul 19, 2012 at 03:34pm IST

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Hyderabad: YSR Congress chief YS Jaganmohan Reddy, who is currently in jail, on Thursday cast his vote in the Presidential election at the Assembly polling station in Hyderabad.

Lodged in the Chanchalguda prison here as an undertrial in a disproportionate assets case, Jagan was brought to the Assembly amidst tight security.

Jagan's mother and Pulivendula MLA YS Vijaya, who was waiting for her son, accompanied him for casting the vote.

AP: Jagan casts ballot in Presidential poll

Lodged in the Chanchalguda prison as an undertrial in a disproportionate assets case, Jagan was brought to the Assembly amidst tight security.

Earlier, former minister Mopidevi Venkata Ramana, Jagan's jailmate in Chanchalguda in the same case, was also brought to the Assembly for casting his vote.

Both Jagan and Mopidevi were permitted by the CBI court, trying their case, to vote in the Presidential election.

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