Jagan Gets Samajwadi Party Support

YSR Congress Party president and Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy is in Delhi to meet all the opposition leaders to explain his version of the story behind the CBI investigation into his assets. Jagan already has the obvious support of BJP's Sushma Swaraj, as she openly accused the centre of witch hunting in the case of Jagan while speaking in Lok Sabha last week.

Jagan met the chief of Samajwadi Parety Mulayam Singh and sought his support. Both Jagan and Mulayam were tight lipped after the meeting. But, earlier, when confronted by media, Mulayam Singh said he would certainly support Jagan as the CBI was being used by the Congress government to harass the young MP. According to sources close to Jagan, he was to meet CPI leader A B Bardhan later on Monday night and secure his support as well. On Tuesday, Jagan is expected to present a note on the politics behind the CBI investigation to all the leaders including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Jagan, however, thanked the Bharatiya Janta Party, especially, opposition leader Sushma Swaraj for defending him in the wake of the CBI investigation. "Even though the BJP and I hold divergent ideological views, I thank the party for the support it extended to me," he said. Expressing displeasure and pain at Congress, the president of YSR Congress said the party which his father served for 30 years was treating him shabbily. "My father, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, served the Congress for thirty years. He was a loyal servant of the party for three decades and led the party to power twice. But, see how the party is treating him after his death," Jagan asked. In the Parliament lobbies, Jagan met MIM preisent Asaduddin Owaisi and some Congress MPs including Ananta Venkatarami Reddy. All through the day Nellore MP Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy accompanied him.

Modi Is Not Our PM: Owaisi

MIM is a recognized state political party based in the Indian state of Telangana, with its head office in the old city of Hyderabad, which has its roots in the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen founded in 1927. Unlike most of the regional and national level parties, MIM party leaders ‘fight’ only for the well-being of Muslims, whereas no other party has such communal feelings. In their each and every speech, MIM leaders speak only about Muslims. If these leaders are here to fight for Muslims, then why there are no development works are happening in old city area for decades. Akbaruddin Owaisi faced criticism for making hate remarks on Narendra Modi and Hindus. Recently, his elder brother Asaduddin Owaisi made some notorious annotations. In a one-on-one debate between BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra and Asaduddin Owaisi on the topic of demonetization in a popular Hindi channel, the former left no stone unturned in exposing the latter’s communal designs. Owaisi claimed how most of the Muslim community still remains unbanked and that demonetization has caused severe inconvenience to Muslims. He even went on to say that ATM’s in Muslim-dominated areas weren’t fed enough money. He indirectly alleged that the Modi government hadn’t done anything for Muslims. Even after being pressurized Owaisi didn’t call Narendra Modi as his Prime Minister. He went on said, “Your Prime Minister…” On the other hand, Sambit spoke wisely and called Owaisi a leader of small stature because he talked only of Muslims. He said that no area was Muslim or Hindu and that all areas belonged to India. Owaisi was constantly quoting an RBI report, to which Sambit challenged him to show where the RBI had used the word ‘Muslim’. Sambit even said that if a Muslim leader speaks of Muslims it’s not an issue, but the moment a VHP leader speaks of Hindus people go crazy accusing them of imposing the Hindutva ideology. The most amazing of his counters was to Owaisi’s claims of Muslims not having been brought into the banking system. Sambit said that when banks or ATMs are to be opened in Muslim areas leaders like Owaisi shout that banking is un-Islamic and that Muslims should refrain from it! This video of debate between Sambit Patra and Asaduddin Owaisi is going viral in social media.