Jagan Seeks CBI Probe for Their Murders

YSR Congress Party president and Leader of Opposition Ys Jagan Mohan Reddy called on Governor ESL Narasimhan at Raj Bhavan on Monday seeking his direction to Andhra Pradesh Government to order CBI probe into the murders of YSRCP leaders.

In his memorandum, Jagan complained that the TDP has unleashed a reign of terror against the YSRCP cadre since it came to power on 8th June, 2014. "We raised this issue on the floor of the Assembly and in many other forums despite which, the situation is going from bad to worse in several parts of the state. The State Government has been using all tactics to terrorise our cadre at their will as there is nobody to take them to task," he said.

"The latest incident in Anathapur district, where a senior YSRCP functionary, Rapthadu Mandal Convener Sri Bhumireddy Prasada Reddy was murdered on 29th April brings to the fore the impunity with which the TDP Government has been letting loose terror in the state. This is the 8th murder in Anantapur district post elections and the irony is the DGP hails from this very same district. The only reason he was eliminated was in the hope that there will be nobody in future who can challenge TDP in that constituency. Having murdered Prasad Reddy for political gain, the Government is now desperately trying to paint that this as a routine factional murder." Jagan complained.

Further, the YSRCP chief alleged that on 31st March, one Vijaya Bashkar Reddy, Kistipadu Village Cooperative Society President was murdered by TDP cadre. "In this incident too, Vijaya Bashkar Reddy was called to the society by the paid secretary and forced him to resign from the president post, on his refusal he was murder there and then by the TDP people. It is widely believed that a Station House Officer has personally carried out this ghastly murder and that this is happening in a district from where the state DGP is hailing is a matter of even greater concern," he alleged.

Jagan alleged that no action has been taken in any of those murders. "Unless these state sponsored murders are checked and action is taken against those responsible, the Government and TDP cadre are going to get even bolder," he demanded.