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.