Former chief minister and YSR Congress president Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Thursday alleged that the government was targeting the YSR Congress social media activists. He said that the police across the state were asked to arrest the social media activists.
Jagan Mohan Reddy addressed the media at Tadepalli on the day. He alleged that the police and the government were not following the supreme court guidelines in arresting the people. The supreme court had said that there should not be any arrests of the social media activists. However, the government was arresting the social media activists across the state, he said.
Jagan Mohan Reddy said that police were booking cases against the social media activists if they post anything against sand mafia, or liquor mafia, the government’s failure to help the flood victims, the wages of money during the flood relief works or any other post. He said that this NDA government is not able to accept the routine criticism.
This is democracy and there would be people to criticize the government, Jagan Mohan Reddy said. He also asserted that people would criticize the government and remain watchdogs to the democracy. He wondered why the police were arresting the social media activists in the state and keeping them in the police stations for two to three days.
The former chief minister said that the police were picking up the social media activists from their homes during the midnight. They were not even being given notice under Section 41A. They were also not taking the permission from the local magistrate for the arrest of any individual, the former chief minister said.
