"People watching Jagan as 'Bafoon'"

[SINGHAM]

Hyderabad, Sept 14: Alleging that the YSR Congress Party Chief, Mr Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, was involved in economic offences, the Congress Legislature Party has said that the Kadapa MP entered politics as an economic offender but not as a politician.

Speaking to the media at CLP office here on Wednesday along with the MLA, Mr Gandra Venkataramana Reddy, the MLCs, Mr Rudraraju Padmaraju, Mr Mohd Jani and Mr Ranga Reddy, the MLC and senior Congress leader, Mr Paladugu Venkata Rao, said that it was an atrocity on the part of Mr Jagan to say that “Daridrulu” were ruling the State. He pointed out that most of YSR Cabinet members were continuing in the present government. A few days ago, Mr Jagan asked the Congress MPs whether they were eating grass instead of performing their duties, he said, adding that Mr Jagan’s remarks attract privilege motion.

Stating that Mr Jagan has a right to do any thing under his party banner, he said that it was not correct for him to insult the Congress MPs. He advised Mr Jagan to go to the people leaving the “palaces” constructed by him at Bengaluru and Lotus Pond in posh Jubilee Hills. He also said that Mr Jagan has no right to go to the people with the portrait of Dr YSR. He can keep YSR photo in his house as a son, he added. Alleging that Mr Jagan has no culture, he said that the people were attending to Mr Jagan’s meetings to watch him as a ‘bafoon’.

Mr Venkatrao said that he would launch a movement after October 2 to protect the Endowment lands which were in the hands of private persons in the State. He said that rich people have encroached upon about 3,500 acres of lands worth Rs 7,000 crores at Gollapally in Krishna district. He said that the government has to collect the same money from the encroachers as per the Apex Court’s verdict in favor of the government. Stating that 101 acres land was allotted to Veda Patashala at Agiripally, he said the value of the land was nearly Rs 10 crores per acre. He said that thousands of crores of rupees worth Endowment lands in the State was not in the hands of the government. The Endowments lands have to be distributed to the poor under tenancy system, he added.