A particular news item went almost unnoticed this week. It was the appearance of YS Jaganmohan Reddy at Mohan Babu's residence in Hyderabad. In fact, after Jagan called on Mohan Babu, whose son married the daughter of Jagan's father's uncle, it triggered a speculation that the veteran actor might join the YSR Congress Party sooner or later. Though none can establish that Babu intends to join the Party and it...
01:18 PM, May 04, 2012
Hyderabad: Already battling corruption cases, YSR Congress chief Jaganmohan Reddy now finds himself in a new controversy as the authorities in the Tirupati temple say he has violated norms. Jagan is a practising Christian but did not sign a mandatory declaration that Non-Hindus have to sign before entering the shrine. The YSR Congress chief visited the temple on Wednesday while campaigning for upcoming bypolls in Andhra Pradesh. According to the...
01:32 PM, May 03, 2012
Hyderabad: A CBI court on Monday granted bail to Jagati Publications Pvt Ltd vice-chairman V Vijay Sai Reddy in the corruption case involving Kadapa MP, YS Jaganmohan Reddy. Vijay Sai surrendered before the court on April 23 after the Andhra Pradesh High Court cancelled his earlier bail on April 20. The HC had said his bail plea can be considered by the trial court afresh. After hearing arguments, the lower...
07:56 PM, Apr 30, 2012
New Delhi: In a new turn in the illegal assets case involving YS Jaganmohan Reddy, his auditor, Vijay Sai Reddy, on Monday, surrendered before the CBI court. Vijay Sai Reddy's bail was cancelled by the Andhra Pradesh High Court on Friday. Justice KC Bhanu, who had reserved his orders on Thursday, pronounced it on Friday, cancelling the bail granted by a lower court. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had...
12:39 PM, Apr 23, 2012
Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Friday cancelled the bail of Vijay Sai Reddy, an aide of YSR Congress party leader Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, in an illegal assets case. Justice K C Bhanu, who had reserved his orders on Thursday, pronounced it on Friday, cancelling the bail granted by a lower court. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had moved the petition that the bail granted by the...
02:07 PM, Apr 20, 2012
Hyderabad: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday summoned Andhra Pradesh Excise Minister Mopidevi Venkatramana in connection the YSR Congress chief YS Jaganmohan Reddys disproportionate assets case. The minister went to the CBI office for the questioning. Venkatramana is the first minister to have been summoned for questioning by the CBI in the case. He is one of the six ministers, who, along with eight IAS officers, were issued...
04:48 PM, Mar 20, 2012
Hyderabad: Ending the long suspense, the Andhra Pradesh assembly speaker on Friday disqualified 16 rebel lawmakers belonging to the ruling Congress party who were loyal to YS Jaganmohan Reddy. The speaker has also accepted the resignation of another Jagan loyalist Shoba Nagi Reddy of Praja Rajyam Party (PRP). A statement about the disqualification was released from the office of speaker Nandendla Manohar on Friday night. Congress had sought the disqualification...
10:50 PM, Mar 02, 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: The CBI on Wednesday filed an application in a local court seeking permission to conduct narco-analysis tests on Vijay Sai Reddy, arrested in connection with the disproportionate assets case against Kadapa MP, YS Jaganmohan Reddy. Ravindhra Nath, CBI Deputy Legal Adviser, said the application would come up for hearing on January 30. Vijay Sai Reddy, arrested on January 2, had exclusive knowledge of many issues, and was not cooperating...
07:02 AM, Jan 26, 2012
Guntur: Kadapa MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy alleged today that Congress and TDP are indulging in dirty politics to target him, "Cruel politics is going on, that 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 Congress elders have a tacit understanding," he said during his ongoing 'odarpu yatra' (tour for consoling) in Guntur...
01:23 AM, Jan 25, 2012
Hyderabad: YSR Congress party leader YS Jaganmohan Reddy's 48-hour fast in Armoor town of Telangana to highlight the problems of farmers entered the second day on Wednesday amid tight security. A large number of farmers and supporters queued up at the hunger strike camp to call on the Kadapa MP and son of late chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy. Jagan, as the young leader is popularly called, began his fast...
04:50 PM, Jan 11, 2012
New Delhi: Former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Rajshekhar Reddy's son Jagan Mohan Reddy is one step closer to being arrested in an illegal assets case, after his auditor Vijay Sai Reddy was arrested on Monday, shortly after he appeared before the CBI for questioning. The arrest is significant as Vijay Sai Reddy has been a close aide to the family for more than 3 decades. Accused number 2 in...
06:58 AM, Jan 03, 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
Hyderabad: As many as 21 legislators loyal to YSR Congress party chief YS Jaganmohan Reddy will vote against the Congress government during the no-confidence motion in the assembly. The legislators including 19 of the ruling Congress party attended a meeting with Jaganmohan Reddy at his residence here to chalk out the party's strategy on the no-confidence motion moved by main opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP). After the meeting, legislator P...
08:01 PM, Dec 03, 2011
Kurnool: "I have no fear as I did no mistake. I informed the same to former chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy," Opposition leader N Chandrababu Naidu told a huge gathering at Pattikonda in Kurnool district on Friday. This was his sharp reaction to YSR Congress president YS Jaganmohan Reddy's plea to CBI to probe Naidus role in the Obulapuram illegal mining lease. Hours after Jagan's appeal to the CBI, Naidu...
10:02 AM, Nov 05, 2011
Hyderabad: At least three Congress MLAs from Telangana region are likely to join Telangana Rashtra Samiti, a move which will deepen the crisis in the ruling party in Andhra Pradesh over the separate statehood issue. Protesting Congress' dilly-dallying on the separate statehood issue, MLAs Jupally Krishna Rao from Kollapur in Mahbubnagar district, S Satyanarayana from Ramagundam in Karimnagar and T Rajaiah from Station Ghanpur in Warangal on Saturday said they...
09:58 PM, Oct 29, 2011
Hyderabad: The Congress government kept it low key but family and followers turned out in full force on Friday to pay rich tributes to the late Andhra Pradesh chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy on his second death anniversary. His wife Vijayalakshmi, son YS Jaganmohan Reddy, daughter Sharmila and other family members paid tributes at his grave in Idupulapaya in Kadapa district. A large number of followers of YSR Congress party...
12:04 PM, Sep 02, 2011
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...
09:32 PM, Aug 20, 2011
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh High Court on Wednesday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to register a case against all the investors who invested in the companies promoted by former Congress leader YS Jaganmohan Reddy to find out whether those investments were made in order to get favours from the state government. Based on a petition filed by P Shankar Rao, state Textile Minister,and Yerram Naidu of Telugu Desam Party,...
05:43 PM, Aug 10, 2011
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Congress on Friday favoured giving a temporary break to the ongoing agitations in the state over the Telangana issue in view of the ill health of UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi. "Yes, I agree with that. Sonia Gandhiji will have to take the decision. So, that will take time. Secondly, I have earlier said the issue can only be resolved through talks. Accordingly, Congress is holding talks with...
09:32 PM, Aug 05, 2011
