The CBI action to freeze bank accounts of Sakshi Media group has drawn wide criticism from various sections with journalist union’s giving protest call and intelligentsia condemning the onslaught on freedom of press.
“YSR Congress thanks all the organisations and individuals for extending support in the case and expressing their strong objection to the CBI move, though the ruling Congress and opposition TDP have been showing slant in their comments,’ party spokesperson Gattu Ramachandra Rao told reporters here on Wednesday.
CBI has become a tool in the hands of the Centre and is being used to settle political scores while the opposition TDP, instead of questioning the ruling Congress is indifferent even at the hour of reckoning, he said.
The way, in which the trail is progressing and the turn of events point towards a deep rooted conspiracy to defame YS Jagan Mohan Reddy before the by-polls, he said.
While the main case pertains to the legitimacy of 26 GOs issued by the State Government, the route CBI has taken for investigation is aimed at targeting Jagan, who was never in the cabinet nor was part of the governance at any point of time, he said.
The conspiracy theory is to sling as much mud as possible before the by-polls but it makes it would cut no ice as people are with YSR Congress.
“After YSR’s death had Jagan taken the MLAs who wanted him to become Chief Minister to a hotel as you (Naidu) had hijacked the legislators and held them captive in a hotel, things would have been different,” he said.
The investigation into the 26 GOs is not going in the right direction and investigation into the accident in which YSR died was also not done in the right earnest, he said. Had the investigation been done in a fair manner many people, who are now in high places, would have been in jail.
Fearing that some such facts will come out, a larger conspiracy is hatched to defame YSR, Jagam Mohan and his family members, he said.
Meanwhile, Andhra Pradesh Union of Working Journalists (APUWJ) has called for a state-wide agitation in protest against the CBI notice to freeze the bank accounts of Sakhi media group describing it as an onslaught on freedom of press.
–Agencies