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Jagan Reddy should be hanged, says Andhra minister

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....more    

YSR Congress to intensify agitation over power tariff hike

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...  

TSR supporters attack convoy of Jagan's mother

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...  

Vijayamma's fast: TRS leaders taken into custody

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...  

Jagan case: Vijayamma complains to CVC against CBI

Hyderabad: 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 Pradeep...  

YSR Cong won't destabilise Andhra govt: Vijayamma

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...  

Andhra by-polls: Can jailed Jagan trump Cong?

Hyderabad: A crucial day for Jagan Mohan Reddy and the Congress in Andhra Pradesh. By-polls to the Nellore Lok Sabha seat and 18 Legislative assembly constituencies will be held on Tuesday. The ruling Congress, the opposition TDP and Jagan's YSR Congress party will be slugging it out for these seats. Polling booths will open at 8 am. The assembly seats including one in Telangana fell vacant following the disqualification of...  

In Jagan's absence, mother, sister shine in campaign

Hyderabad: While Congress chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy's hopes of campaigning in June 12 bypolls in the state were dashed by the Andhra Pradesh High Court which gave his 5-day custody to CBI in disproportionate asset case, the setback could turn into an advantage for his party. Jagan has been in the Chanchalguda prison since Monday following his arrest by CBI in the disproportionate assets case. However, his mother-MLA YS...  

With Jagan in jail, mother to lead party campaign

Hyderabad: With her son Jagan Mohan Reddy in jail, YS Vijaya will lead the campaign of YSR Congress in the June 12 by-elections to 17 assembly and one Lok Sabha seat in Andhra Pradesh. Vijaya, a housewife who entered politics after the death of her husband and former chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy in a chopper crash in 2009, was urged by the party's General Council today to take the...  

Jagan's arrest: Mother seeks Quraishi's intervention

Hyderabad: Kadapa MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy's mother and the party honorary chief YS Vijaya on Monday requested Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi to direct CBI to release her son in larger interest of democracy and sought holding of free and fair elections in Andhra Pradesh. In a letter addressed to Quraishi, Vijaya alleged her son was arrested just days before the June 12 bypolls as part of a larger conspiracy...  

Jagan MLAs get ready to ambush government

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...  

'CBI should probe Jagan Mohan impartially'

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...  

Kadapa: Jagan party slams Congress

Kadapa: YSR Congress has hit out at ruling Congress in Andhra Pradesh, saying it is creating problems for their President YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, who is facing CBI probe over his assets and investments by companies in his business entities. Under the guise CBI probe, the Congress is trying to create problems for Jagan. People of the state are unhappy over reported naming of YSR Reddy, late father of Jagan,...  

Jagan's mother writes to PM, flays CBI probe

Hyderabad: Cornered by CBI probe into his assets, YS Jaganmohan Reddy, MP, on Saturday made his mother YS Vijayamma write a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pleading to bring some semblance of justice, sanity and fair play in the ongoing investigation. In a five-page letter to the Prime Minister, the late YSR's widow attacked Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and asked if the CBI investigation against her son was not...