Vijayamma campaign in Parkal today

                                                                                      

YSR Congress Party honorary president Vijayamma will make her maiden foray into Telangana by campaigning in Parkal Assembly constituency for her party candidate Konda Surekha on Friday.

This will be the first time, a senior YSR Congress leader will be entering north Telangana after party president Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy was forced to abort his ‘Odarpu yatra' in Mahabubabad two years ago by Telangana activists. The party leaders had earlier planned an elaborate campaign but decided to curtail it fearing trouble.

The Telangana Rashtra Samiti and other organisations had initially announced their resolve to obstruct the tour but decided against doing so. The political JAC chairman M. Kodandaram said they would not disrupt the YSR Congress leader's tour programme. “We want her to spell out her party stand on Telangana statehood issue,” he told The Hindu .

According to YSRCP sources, Ms. Vijayamma will board a train on Friday in Gudur and to reach Warangal. Campaign managers of Ms. Vijayamma are reluctant to disclose her tour programme but said she would participate in a road show in Geesukonda mandal headquarters at 10.30 a.m. and address a meeting in Parkal town. She will then take a train to Nellore to continue her campaign in Nellore Lok Sabha constituency.

from Hindu

All Cabinet colleagues of YSR will be arrested soon

                                                                                     

Senior Telugu Desam leader Gali Muddukrishnama Naidu on Thursday lashed out at the ruling Congress party and said that the day is not far away when all the Cabinet Ministers, who served under Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, will be put behind bars for their deeds.

Muddukrishnama Naidu, who is known for his vituperative tongue said that the condition of the Cabinet colleagues of YSR is like those caught between the devil and the deep sea with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) gradually tightening the screws from all the directions.

Intervention sought

In an informal chat with the media persons along with Srikalahasti MLA Bojjala Gopalakrishna Reddy by his side, Muddukrishnama Naidu said that he would write a letter to the State Election Commission seeking its intervention into Wednesday's episode wherein the local police allegedly tried to videograph the campaigning trail of the Congress party contestant M. Venkataramana at non-residential areas atop the sacred town causing hardships to the visiting pilgrims and the consequences that followed.

from Hindu

Jagan will come out clean, says Vijayamma

                                                                                    

YSR Congress Party honorary president Y.S. Vijayamma asserted on Thursday that her son Jaganmohan Reddy will come out clean in the CBI cases despite being targeted by the Congress and TDP as he never interfered with the government functioning.

Addressing a string of election meetings in Rayachoti, Sanipai, Rajampet, Pullampet, Obulavaripalle and Kodur in her native Kadapa district, she promised that Jagan would fulfil YSR's goals and serve the people like his father. The outcome of the by-elections would change the political scenario in the State, she said.

She called upon people to teach a lesson to the Congress and Telugu Desam, which colluded to victimise her family and target Jagan for quitting Congress and launching his own party. Alleging that Congress was guiding course of the CBI inquiry in Jagan's case, she wondered why her complaint against TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu was not considered.

She asked why the government and Congress leaders were fearing the demand for a re-inquiry into YSR's demise in a helicopter crash and in turn levelling baseless allegations against his family members. She asked why Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy who was to fly to Chittoor along with YSR on the ill-fated day dropped his programme.

Ms. Vijayamma said the TDP levelled baseless corruption charges against YSR by projecting an arbitrary figure of Rs. 1 lakh crores in its book. Jagan pursued business and set up industries well before YSR became Chief Minister.

Resenting the charge that Jagan was a power-monger, she asked why would he propose K. Rosaiah for Chief Ministership despite having support of about 153 MLAs. Criticising Congress leaders accusing her of being power-hungry, she said she never came to the people but was now being forced to do so.

Developmental and welfare schemes implemented during YSR rule reached every household but were taking a backseat now, the YSRCP leader said and said the Congress government was not concerned at the plight of farmers, women and youth. She urged the people to elect YSRCP candidates G. Srikanth Reddy, A. Amarnath Reddy and K. Srinivasulu, who quit their Assembly seats for the cause of farmers. YSR's daughter Sharmila, party leaders, including Rehman and party candidates also addressed people
from Hindu

Boy shouts 'Jai Jagan' at Chanchalguda

                                                                                         
HYDERABAD: A 10-year-old boy who shouted 'Jai Jagan' rattled police officers and left Y S Jaganmohan Reddy amused at the Central Prison, Chanchalguda on Thursday . Ostensibly happy, Jagan who was coming out of the prison gate in the morning, responded by waving at the boy in a gesture of blessing , his trademark manner during his Odarpu yatras.

The boy, who had come for mulaqat along his other family members to meet someone in the jail, suddenly shouted 'jai Jagan' standing across the road in front of the jail gate as Jagan was about to get into a CBI vehicle to be taken for grilling.

Jagan had completed his customary 'namasthe and smiles' at the media and was just about to get into the vehicle when the shout of the boy made him step back and acknowledge the affection.

The police personnel, who had cleared the road were taken aback at the `slogan-shouting' but could not help but break into a smile realizing that it was only a kid.

When two of Jagan's followers tried to create a scene at the jail gate on the day he was arrested, they were immediately bundled into a police van and taken away.
from Times of India

CBI issues notice to BCCI chief in Jagan DA case

                                                                     
The CBI has called BCCI chief and India Cements managing director N Srinivasan for questioning in connection with disproportionate assets cases against YSR Congress chief Jaganmohan Reddy, agency sources said on Friday.
CBI is probing the alleged investments made by Srinivasan's company India Cements in the companies promoted by the Kadapa MP during the tenure of his father YS Rajshekhara Reddy as chief minister, the sources said.
The agency has also asked officials of some other cement companies to appear for questioning, they said.
CBI sources said the cement companies could be asked about water and limestone allocations made during the tenure of Rajashekhara Reddy as chief minister.

They said Srinivasan has been asked to appear next week at the CBI office here.
The CBI is probing the alleged investments made by Srinivasan's company India Cements in the companies promoted by the Kadapa MP during the tenure of his father Y S Rajshekhara Reddy as chief minister, the sources said.
The agency has also asked officials of some other cement companies to appear for questioning, they said.
CBI sources said the cement companies could be asked about water and limestone allocations made during the tenure of Rajashekhara Reddy as chief minister.
Efforts to contact Srinivasan did not materialise.
The CBI, in its three charge sheets filed against Jagan and others, has alleged that he and his father had hatched a conspiracy to