Hyderabad: An Andhra Pradesh minister's remark calling for hanging of jailed MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy has sparked a furore with the latter's YSR Congress party on Saturday staging protests against him across the state. YSR party leaders staged demonstrations in various parts of the state, burning the effigies of Finance Minister Anam Ramnarayan Reddy, who demanded on Friday that Jaganmohan Reddy be hanged for corruption.
Jagan, as the MP from Kadapa is popularly known, is currently in Chanchalguda jail, in a a case of illegal assets. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has charged him with entering into a conspiracy with his father and then chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy to grant undue favours to companies and individuals who invested in his business.
YSR party leaders found fault with Ramnarayan Reddy for attacking the family of late Rajasekhara Reddy, who made him a minister. Raising slogans against the ministers, the YSR party activists held his mock funeral in Visakhapatnam.
Protests were also held against the finance minister in Hyderabad, Tirupati, Anantapur, Kadapa, Nellore, Guntur, Vijayawada, Karimnagar and other places. Ramnarayan Reddy had on Friday stated that Jagan was the most corrupt leader in the country. "If there is a provision in law for capital punishment for corruption, no one deserves it better than Jagan," the minister said....
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07:49 PM, Apr 13, 2013
Hyderabad: YSR Congress on Saturday said with the Congress-led Andhra Pradesh government not responding adequately to the issue of power tariff hike, it would intensify its agitation demanding roll-back in the increase. The party has asked its cadre to "picket all electricity sub-stations besides holding dharnas and taking out rallies in all district headquarters to express solidarity with the party leaders who are on an indefinite fast in Hyderabad". YSRCP...
05:59 AM, Apr 07, 2013
Hyderabad: YSR Congress Party's Y S Vijayamma on Thursday night alleged that the Congress-TDP nexus has come to the fore with the Enforcement Directorate issuing orders attaching the assets of Sakshi media house. The move came on the eve of YSR Congress Party chief Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy's bail petition coming up for hearing in the Supreme Court, she said. "The ED order says that the two companies have...
10:11 AM, Oct 05, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The smile on her face was a cold one. Seventeen years behind bars had made her mind so frozen that she has only blurred memories of the past. But stepping out of prison to the outside world was like a dream that came true. Vijayamma, a 42-year-old inmate of the Womens Jail at Attakkulangara, was released on parole on Wednesday for the first time after she was sentenced to...
02:32 PM, Sep 20, 2012
Hyderabad: Stones were pelted allegedly by the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) supporters at the convoy of Jagan Reddy's mother Vijayamma as she made her way to the textile town of Sirisilla. She, however, managed to fast for weavers' problems in Andhra Pradesh's Telangana region amidst violent protests by the TRS. The TRS has been threatening to disrupt her agitation till Jagan takes a stand on the Telangana issue and the...
10:32 PM, Jul 23, 2012
Hyderabad: Scores of TRS workers and activists of separate statehood groups were on Monday taken into preventive custody at different places when they tried to stop the convoy of YSR Congress Honorary President YS Vijayamma who was on her way to hold a 'dharna' in support of weavers' problem in Sircilla of Karimnagar district. Over 300 preventive arrests of TRS workers, including party MLAs Harish Rao and KT Ramarao, was...
03:31 PM, Jul 23, 2012
Karimnagar: Ahead of YSRC honorary president Vijayammas Cheneta Deeksha on Monday, tension is building up in the weavers town of Sircilla. Sensing trouble, police officials have made security arrangements on an unprecedented scale to prevent breakdown of law and order in view of the TRSTJAC call for disrupting the programme. The YSR Congress and the TRS have been on a collision course ever since YSRC candidate Konda Surekha came very...
12:13 PM, Jul 23, 2012
Karimnagar: The Maha Deeskha proposed by YSR Congress honorary president YS Vijayalakshmi for the cause of weavers on July 23 in Sircilla seems to have heated up the district politics with the leaders trading war of words with each other. Karimnagar MP Ponnam Prabhakar and Sircilla MLA KT Rama Rao at separate meetings here on Sunday termed the deeksha a vain bid to boost the sagging image of the YSR...
12:11 PM, Jul 16, 2012
New Delhi: Alleging witch-hunting of YSR Congress Party president and MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy by the CBI at the behest of the Congress high command, his mother and party honorary president YS Vijayalaskhmi knocked on the doors of Union agricultural minister and National Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar, CPM general secretary Prakash Karat and Trinamool Congress leader Sultan Ahmed in New Delhi on Thursday. She also met Central Vigilance Commissioner...
11:40 AM, Jul 06, 2012
New Delhi: Its impressive performance in the recent by-polls notwithstanding, Jagan Mohan Reddy's YSR Congress does not have any intention to destabilise the Kiran Kumar Reddy government in Andhra Pradesh, but would welcome people from any party. YS Vijayamma, the mother of jailed leader of the party YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, also dismissed suggestions that the by-poll victory was due to "sympathy" triggered after her son's arrest and attributed the...
06:51 PM, Jul 05, 2012
Guntur (AP): Congress MP from Guntur Rayapati Sambasiva Rao has attributed party's debacle and YSR Congress's landslide victory in the state by-elections to the "tears" of Vijaya Lakshmi, the wife of former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister late YS Rajasekhara Reddy. In a letter to AICC president Sonia Gandhi, Rao, said that Vijayamma had shed "copious tears" at the election meetings blaming the Congress Party for her husband's death in September...
01:11 PM, Jun 25, 2012
Hyderabad: YSR Congress chief Jaganmohan Reddy's mother Vijayamma is set to kick off her party's bypoll campaign in Andhra Pradesh from Wednesday. Vijayamma met Jagan in Chanchalguda jail cell on Tuesday. She and her family have been sitting on dharna accusing the CBI of a witchhunt in order to prevent Jagan from campaigning for the bypolls that will take place on June 12. Vijayamma will begin her campaign from Srikakulam...
07:40 AM, May 30, 2012
Hyderabad: After spending the night at Hyderabad's Chanchalguda jail, YSR Congress chief and Kadapa MP Jagan Mohan Reddy moved the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court for bail on Tuesday in the disproportionate assets case. The bail has been posted for May 31 for hearing. Jagan met his family members including his wife Bharathi and mother YS Vijaya inside the jail on Tuesday morning before applying for bail. Jagan was...
12:29 PM, May 29, 2012
Hyderabad: YSR Congress chief and Kadapa MP Jagan Mohan Reddy is in more trouble in the alleged disproportionate assets case with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which was denied his custody, likely to move a higher court while the Enforcement Directorate, too, may question him. Jagan spent his first night in Hyderabad's Chanchalguda jail on Monday after a court sent him to 14-day judicial custody, which means he won't...
07:36 AM, May 29, 2012
Hyderabad: YSR Congress Chief Jagan Mohan Reddy's mother Vijayamma said on Sunday that her son's arrest was nothing but a political conspiracy and accused the Congress of trying to destroy her family. An emotionally-choked Vijayamma sat on a dharna outside the CBI office in Hyderabad as soon as the news of her son's arrest started pouring in. She said, "This is a political conspiracy. My son has done nothing wrong....
10:05 PM, May 27, 2012
Vijayawada: YSR Congress party on Sunday criticised Vijaywada MP and Congress leader Lagdapati Rajagopal for his alleged comment targeting Kadapa MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy's mother. "Rajagopal should not cross his limits and learn a few lessons on how to behave as an MP," YSR Congress city convener Jaleel Khan told reports. He was reacting to the MP's alleged remark last week that "Vijayamma did not train her son Jagan as...
07:10 PM, May 27, 2012
HYDERABAD:YSR Congress honorary president and Pulivendula MLA YS Vijayamma, on Friday, filed a petition before the Supreme Court challenging the AP High Courts decision to dismiss her plea for an inquiry by CBI and other central agencies into alleged disproportionate assets of former chief minister and TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu and others. The matter is likely to come up for hearing after the court reopens after vacation beginning Saturday.It...
09:32 AM, May 12, 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
Hyderabad: YSR Congress party honorary president and MLA YS Vijayamma has appealed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to direct the CBI to act 'impartially' not yielding to any pressure from its political bosses as far as investigations against her son and Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy are concerned. "The way the CBI has been carrying on its investigations into various cases, (it is) desperately trying to establish a link...
08:20 AM, Jan 31, 2012
Hyderabad: Late Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy's widow Vijayamma on Monday accused the Congress party of throwing her and her son Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy out of the party following the death of her husband. Making her maiden speech in the state assembly on Monday night, Vijayamma criticized both the Congress party and main opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) for maligning YSR, as the late chief minister was popularly...
11:31 AM, Dec 06, 2011
