YCP chief and former Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy, who came out for the first time after a month of poll results, alleged that his party lost in the elections not because of opposition from people. According to him, TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu has come to power with fraudulent campaigns, which diverted 10 percent of votes.
YS Jagan, who was kept away from the media during his five-year regime, only briefly spoke on the day of results, for the first time addressing the media on Thursday in Nellore after visiting former YCP MLA Pinnelli Ramakrishna Reddy, who is lodged in Jail.
Jagan alleged that the TDP government has unfairly filled illegal cases against former MLA Pinnelli and that similar programs are taking place across the state. Endorsing the Election Commission’s contention that Pinnelli broke EVM at a polling station, the former chief minister said that Pinnelli broke the EVM because he could not see the injustice happening in the Palvaigate polling booth, when rigging was taking place.
He hailed Pinnelli as a popular leader in that area, as he had won four times as MLA. But, he was deplored for filing cases like attempt to murder after 10 days of the polling. He deplored that the situation is the same in all the villages across the state.
For the first time referring to minister Nara Lokesh’s alleged `Red Book’, he lamented that everyone is carrying a red book and behaving badly, unjustly and destroying properties. He accused the police of filing cases of theft and they themselves are filing cases of theft.
Jagan wondered that some MLAs were themselves accused of breaking the buildings by taking the JCBs. He warned TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu that his government may not last forever and people will surely understand. He threatened that the same situation may repeat to TDP party workers tomorrow.
The YCP chief alleged that ruling party workers are destroying properties of YCP supporters and filing cases of theft against them on the grudge that they did not vote for them.
