YSRC boycotts MLC elections and would not attend Assembly sessions

Vijayawada:Former chief minister and YSRC president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy said the YSRC would boycott the MLC elections due to anarchism prevailing in the state. He also said they would not attend the Assembly Winter Session, scheduled to commence on November 11, but would conduct mock Aassembly to question the government.

Alleging that the Chandrababu Naidu-led coalition government had failed on all fronts and the state was pushed into a dark age, Jagan Mohan Reddy warned the police to stick to the rule book and not buckle under pressure to dance to the tunes of the ruling party.

Quoting the Supreme Court ruling, the YSRC chief said, “Notices should be served first and magistrate permission be taken before arresting an MLA or MP if the police are armed with an arrest warrant. But the police in the state are throwing all procedures to winds and are arresting even family members if the person facing the charges not available. Illegal detentions have become the order of the day without following due procedures and the police have no right to bring family members to the police station. They were picked from Tenali, Chilakaruripeta, Tadepalle, Markapuram, Pendyala, Guntur, Tiruvur, Hyderabad and other places. In all 101 cases were booked mocking the Supreme Court ruling.”

The former chief minister warned that the YSRC legal cell would take up the issue of false cases and all erring officials will have to face the music when the YSRC come back to power. “We track down every officer and take action,” he warned.

Jagan Mohan Reddy affirmed, “We will also lodge private complaints against them. Police have been detaining social media activists for questioning the corrupt practices of the government during the recent floods in Vijayawada and other areas on irregularities. TD’s official website had posted fake news about my mother when her car broke down and when she wrote a letter as a rejoinder they even dubbed it as fake, now what action did the police take against them,” he questioned the police.

The YSRC chief said, “There were 91 cases of atrocities on women and minors in the last five months in Tenali, Badvel, Srikakulam, Hindupur, Anakapalle and other places. In most cases, the perpetrators were ruling party supporters. In Pithapuram, the constituency of Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan, a TD councillor’s husband had committed atrocity on a Dalit woman at a dump yard and she was rescued by a rag-picker. No case was booked in the incident. In Tirupati, the family of the victim was threatened to give statements to suit them.”