Hyderabad: The Congress appears to have more or less decided to target only YS Jagan Mohan Reddy and maintain silence on the late YS Rajasekhara Reddy, while campaigning for the by-elections to 18 Assembly seats. The Congress leaders prefer this strategy since they are afraid that any diatribe against YSR would prove counterproductive. Already, there is opposition to the idea that the Congress should go after both the father and...
10:37 AM, Apr 10, 2012
New Delhi/Hyderabad: After filing a charge sheet against YS Jagan Mohan Reddy for alleged abuse of his official position, the CBI has sent a request to various countries seeking their assistance in probing alleged transfer of funds by the son of former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, a charge denied by him. The letter of request, sent through diplomatic channel, alleged that between 2004 and 2009 when YS Rajashekar Reddy was...
08:16 PM, Apr 08, 2012
New Delhi: YSR Congress chief and MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, who is among 13 people booked by the CBI in an alleged disproportionate assets case, has hit back at the central probing agency, saying that he is being made a scapegoat of the dirty politics. Jagan also asked why no Congress leader has been named in the chargesheet. A day after CBI filed the chargesheet against him and 12...
12:39 AM, Apr 02, 2012
New Delhi: The CBI on Saturday closed in on YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy, filing its first chargesheet against him and 12 others in an alleged disproportionate assets case. Sources tell CNN-IBN that the CBI is unlikely to arrest Jagan this week. The 68-page chargesheet was filed in Hyderabad on Saturday. It also names suspended IAS officer and Jagan's auditor, BP Acharya. The former Congress leader, however, hit back...
09:04 AM, Apr 01, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday filed chargesheet against Kadapa MP and YSR Congress president YS Jagan Mohan Reddy in the illegal assets case. The Central agency filed its chargesheet against Jagan Mohan Reddy, his financial advisor Vijay Sai Reddy and 11 others, including individuals and firms, in the special CBI court in Hyderabad. Jagan Mohan Reddy has been charged with offences under different provisions of...
05:12 PM, Mar 31, 2012
Hyderabad: The YSR Congress is elated over its victory in Kovur assembly constituency in Andhra Pradesh's Nellore district, its first win outside Kadapa district. Announcing its arrival on the electoral platform of the state, the party bagged the Kovur seat, wresting it from main opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP). By winning the only seat it contested in the by-elections, YSR Congress has sent a warning to both the ruling Congress...
05:31 PM, Mar 21, 2012
New Delhi: Byelections will be held on Sunday for seven seats in the Telangana region after several legislators resigned recently demanding the formation of a separate state of Telangana. Several political parties have been adopting this strategy to put further pressure on the Congress government. The bypolls to five out of the six constituencies in Telangana region were necessitated due to the resignation of sitting MLAs in support of separate...
06:43 AM, Mar 18, 2012
HYDERABAD: Issuance of notices by the Supreme Court to six ministers in the Jaganmohan Reddy's assets case could not have come at a worse time for chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy who is preparing the party to put up a respectable performance in the by-elections for six Assembly seats in Telangana and one from Andhra.All along, Congress leaders have been trying to paint Jaganmohan Reddy as corruption re-incarnate and...
07:59 AM, Mar 13, 2012
Hyderabad: The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to six ministers and eight senior bureaucrats Jagan Reddy's disproportionate assets case on a plea alleging that the CBI was not proceeding against them. The Supreme Court notice asks why no case has been filed against the ministers and the bureaucrats in the case. The SC ruled that the ministers and the bureaucrats were parties to passing illegal orders favouring Jagan's companies...
02:34 PM, Mar 12, 2012
Hyderabad: The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to six ministers and eight senior bureaucrats Jagan Reddy's disproportionate assets case on a plea alleging that the CBI was not proceeding against them. The Supreme Court notice asks why no case has been filed against the ministers and the bureaucrats in the case. The SC ruled that the ministers and the bureaucrats were parties to passing illegal orders favouring Jagan's companies...
01:34 PM, Mar 12, 2012
Nellore: Predicting that the performance of the Congress in Andhra Pradesh would not be much different from that in Uttar Pradesh, YSR Congress Party president YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has exuded confidencethat his party will come to power with the blessings of the people. Addressing a series of road-side meetings at Leburu, Narasapuram, Krishnapuram, Kothakaluva, Pallepadu, Gudipallepadu in Indukurpeta mandal on Thursday as part of his electioneering in the Kovuru...
11:54 AM, Mar 09, 2012
HYDERABAD: Is family welfare minister DL Ravindra Reddy moving closer to Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy? His remarks during an interaction with mediapersons in the Assembly lobbies on Tuesday lent credence to the rumours. Ravindra Reddy is learnt to have said that after the by-elections for the 17 Assembly seats, as many as 70 MLAs would join the Jagan camp.Ever since chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy clipped his...
09:26 AM, Mar 07, 2012
Hyderabad: In an unprecedented action in state legislature history, Andhra Pradesh Assembly Speaker Nadendla Manohar on Friday disqualified 16 MLAs of ruling Congress who had voted against the party government during a no-trust motion in December last year sailing with expelled Congress leader YS Jaganmohan Reddy. The Speaker also accepted the resignation of Praja Rajyam Party MLA B Sobha Nagi Reddy who too had backed Jagan. The development brings down...
12:34 AM, Mar 03, 2012
Hyderabad: All the 16 Congress and one PRP MLA, who are in YS Jagan Mohan Reddy's camp, urged the Election Commission to hold the by-elections for the seven seats that had already fallen vacant and those for their own constituencies together. In a letter to the Chief Election Commissioner (EC), they alleged that though the Speaker had not declared them as disqualified though the proceedings were completed, under pressure from...
10:42 AM, Feb 14, 2012
Hyderabad: With the speaker deciding against disqualifying the MLAs who are in the Jagan Mohan Reddy camp for the time being, all eyes are riveted on how they will behave in the Assembly session beginning on Monday. "We cannot sit as a single group.They will not allow it. We too cannot ask him (the speaker) to treat us as a separate group," said Pilli Subhas Chandra Bose, leader of the...
09:28 AM, Feb 13, 2012
New Delhi: The CBI chargesheet in the Emaar - MGF scam in Andhra Pradesh could spell more trouble for Jagan Mohan Reddy. The chargesheet accessed by CNN-IBN says Emaar-MGF had misappropriated funds in excess of Rs 100 crore in the deal. A close aide of Jagan Reddy, Sunil Reddy, has already been arrested in the scam. The CBI chargesheet says that investigations are still on to find out who was...
06:23 PM, Feb 10, 2012
Guntur: Former Andhra Pradesh chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy's son and Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy alleged on Tuesday that the Congress and the Telegu Desam Party (TDP) are indulging in dirty politics to target him. "Cruel politics is going on. That is only two parties should exist - TDP and Congress. A third party should not be there and to make it happen (TDP chief) Chandrababu Naidu and...
11:55 PM, Jan 24, 2012
Hyderabad: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday arrested Sunil Reddy, said to be a close aide of Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, in the Emaar-APIIC land case. This is the second arrest in the case after the investigating agency filed an FIR in August last year. "Sunil Reddy was arrested in Emaar case today (Tuesday) at 6.50 pm. He will be produced in the Special CBI Court...
11:10 PM, Jan 24, 2012
Hyderabad: A group of 17 legislators loyal to YSR Congress Party have refused to appear before Andhra Pradesh assembly Speaker N. Manohar in response to his notices, and maintained that they should be disqualified. The speaker had summoned 16 rebel legislators of the ruling Congress and one of the Praja Rajyam Party (PRP) to hear them personally on the disqualification petitions submitted by their respective parties. The speaker had issued...
11:44 AM, Jan 19, 2012
Hyderabad; A CBI special court here on Tuesday extended till Jan 31 the judicial custody of Vijay Sai Reddy, an aide involved in YSR Congress Party leader Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy's alleged illegal assets case. As his judicial remand ended on Tuesday, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) presented him before the court, which extended his judicial remand by two weeks. Vijay Sai Reddy was arrested by the CBI on Jan...
06:10 PM, Jan 17, 2012
