TDP seeks CBI's clarification for not arresting Jagan

The Telugu Desam Party on Monday asked the Central Bureau of Investigation to clarify as to why it has not arrested YSR Congress president YS Jagan Mohan Reddy in the disproportionate assets case.

Addressing a press conference at NTR Trust Bhavan, TDP MLA M Revanth Reddy said that it was strange that the CBI has arrested the Accused No 2 Vijay Sai Reddy in the alleged illegal assets case, but has spared Accused No 1 - Jagan Mohan Reddy. He alleged that the CBI was acting at the behest of the Congress High Command and did not arrest Jagan following his secret pact with the Congress party.

Revanth Reddy said that the CBI should function independently and free itself from all political pressures to ensure free and fair investigations into various cases, especially in the Jagan's illegal assets case.

Countering a recent statement by YSR Congress party leaders that the party would come to power in the mid-term polls and would run the government with ethics and credibility, Revanth Reddy said that the words like 'ethics' and 'credibility' does not match Jagan's profile. He alleged that Jagan started lobbying for the Chief Minister even before YS Rajasekhara Reddy's body reached home from Nallamalla forest after helicopter crash.

Revanth Reddy said that Jagan did not bother to help the IAS officials who are now in jail for signing the GOs during YSR's regime. He said YSR Congress leaders have been making statements without looking into the past of Jagan Mohan Reddy.