Affirming that the Chandrababu Naidu led coalition government has failed on all fronts and the State is pushed into a dark age, YSR Congress supremo and former Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy warned the police to stick to the rule book and do not buckle under pressure to dance to the tunes of ruling party.
Speaking to the media on Thursday, Jagan Mohan Reddy said, the law-and-order situation has worsened and social media activists are being harassed and picked up without following the due procedure and during the last five months safety of women and minor girls has been badly bruised.
Quoting the Supreme Court ruling, the former Chief Minister said notices first should be given and then magistrate permission should be taken and then armed with a warrant the person should be arrested. But throwing all procedure to winds the police have been picking of people for questioning, detaining them in policing stations and even arresting family members if the person facing the charges is not available. We have given phone numbers for legal aid.
Police should safeguard the dignity and decorum of their uniform as political power is not permanent and if they continue to do the same, the legal cell of the Party will take up the issue and all erring officials will have to face the music, when we come back to power. We track down every officer and take action, he warned. We will also lodge private complaints against them. Police have been detaining social media activists for questioning the corrupt practices of the government during the recent flood in Vijayawada and other areas of irregularities. What their post said was not new, it was all reported in the media about the irregularities in flood relief and rescue operations in Vijayawada and police have hounded them on the directions of political bosses.
Illegal detentions have become order of the day without following the due procedure and police have no right to bring family members to the police station, he said. They were picked from Tenali, Chilakaruripeta, Tadepalle, Markapuram, Pendyala, Guntur, Tiruvur, Hyderabad and other places. In all 101 cases were booked mocking the Supreme Court ruling.
On the other hand, TDP official website had posted fake news about my mother when her car broke down and when she wrote a letter as rejoinder, they even dubbed it as fake, now what action did police take against them, he questioned the police. Such type of character assassination is going one and if police look the other way, they will be answerable in the coming days.
I tell the police and the DGP not to degrade and belittle themselves but to work as per law and do not yield to pressure. Highlighting the miserable failure of government in maintaining, he said, there were 91 cases of atrocities on women and minors in the last five months in Tenali, Badvel, Srikakulam, Hindupur, Anakapalle and other places where atrocities were committed on innocent minor girls and women and in most cases the perpetrators were ruling party supporters. No case was registered and the culprits are moving freely, he said. In Pithapuram, the constituency of Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan, a TDP councilor’s husband had committed atrocity on Dalit women at a dump yard and she was rescued by a rag-picker and no case was booked. In Tirupati, the family of victim was threatened to give statements to suit them.
The government has failed on all fronts and failed. Our reforms in education, medical and farming sectors were brought to a naught. The Super Six has been a big flop, he said. On the education front, it has not paid the fee reimbursement for three quarters and Vasathi Deevena, Goru Mudda and other schemes were shut down. On the medical front Aargyasri bills were not paid and recruitment of doctors has been stopped. Crop insurance and RBKs were watered down and middlemen entered the scene and it would be a replay of 2014. Social welfare pensions were cut down and no new registrations were undertaken which shows the sincerity of the government and its lack of transparency, he said.
On Saraswati Cements and Industries issue, he played the video of the MRO who acknowledged the Party stand. The mining lease is always for 50 years, he said. The delay was due to the cases filed against me by Congress and TDP. I moved court and got a favourable verdict, he said. The government should try to bring in investment but this coalition is driving away them. The Jindal group has come to invest in Kadapa Steel Plant but he has been coerced bringing in a starlet who is a habitual offender
When we are not recognized as main Opposition, with 40 percent votes, if they decide not to give mike they are no acknowledge and they will not give mike. Then where is the point in going to assembly. I will use the same time and raise the voice through the media.
