Jaganmohan attacks Cong leadership, Rosaiah

HYDERABAD: Rebellious Kadapa MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy attacked the Congress leadership and Andhra Pradesh chief minister K Rosaiah by questioning why they were preventing party ministers and MLAs from taking part in his controversial Yatra.

"The ministers and MLAs are feeling tortured as they are unable to take part in my Yatra. Are not those who died after my father Y S Rajasekhara Reddy's death Congress workers? Has any Congress leader paid a visit to their families in the last ten months and consoled them?" Jagan said in a belligerent tone at Veeraghattam in Srikakulam district.

"Is all this justified? What is the sin I have committed?", he said on the third day of his yatra which has now been extended to four days in this border district.

Jagan also lashed out at the chief minister, though indirectly, for holding the state assembly session on July 8, thereby preventing the ministers and the MLAs from celebrating YSR's 61st birth anniversary in their respective constituencies.

"I know the pain these ministers and MLAs are feeling. They are sending their families to participate in my Yatra as they themselves are being blocked from accompanying me," Jagan said.

"Is having deep love and affection towards the late leader a crime of the ministers and MLAs?" he said angrily, referring to the absence of ministers and MLAs from Srikakulam district in his yatra.

The MP also alleged that ministers and legislators from East Godavari district too were being restricted from taking part in his Odarpu Yatra.

Reiterating his yesterday's claim that politics in the state touched a nadir in the last nine months, Jagan, however, said he would not stoop by talking about them.

He said he would stand by whatever he believed in and would not shy away from "doing anything that is just."