Congress Has no Role in Jagan Arrest: Kiran Kumar Reddy

Addressing a press meet at the Secretariat, Andhra Pradesh chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy said that the national or state Congress has no role in Jagan Mohan Reddy's arrest or in CBI probe into his disproportionate assets case. "Everyone is bringing in Central, state government or Sonia Gandhi for political leverage. State government is only confined to maintaining law and order in the state. Previously there have been cases where ministers have resigned because of CBI investigation. State government never had any connection with the investigation," he said.

The chief minister said "Congress party has given Jagan a lot of chances to become the leader that he is today. There is no link between his financial irregularities and the election. Jagan using YSR's death to get political leverage in these elections is not right. He should remember that all the chances that YSR got were because Sonia trusted in him and he worked faithfully for the Congress. "It is not fair on part of YSR Congres to try to gain political mileage out of an unfortunate accident (death of YS Rajasekhar Reddy in a helicopter crash in 2009)," he added.