A delegation of YSR Congress Party led by its president Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy will meet President Pranab Mukherjee in New Delhi on June 9 and apprise him of the developments in the cash-for-vote case involving TDP president and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu.
Senior leader of YSR Congress Dr. M.V. Mysoora Reddy told reporters here on Monday that the party had already sought an appointment with the President.
The party delegation would submit a memorandum to the president on the cash-for-vote issue explaining how squandering away the ill-gotten money in horse-trading for MLC seat was attempted in Telangana, he stated. Protest programmes would be organised in all the 175 Assembly constituencies in AP on Tuesday demanding the resignation of Mr. Naidu for his direct involvement in the vote-for-cash as revealed through video and audio tapes, Dr. Reddy said. The onus is on Mr. Naidu to prove his innocence by voluntarily seeking a CBI probe into the issue, he suggested.
Mr. Naidu is trying to mislead people on the issue by painting it as an issue between the people of the two States, while it is an episode of practicing corrupt politics.
“Mr. Naidu should own moral responsibility for his party legislator being caught red-handed while attempting bribe and MLA and resign as the Chief Minister,” Dr. Reddy, who acted as a Rajya Sabha member from TDP for six years in the past, said.
The YSRC delegation would also meet Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and brief him about the unethical practices being resorted to by TDP in the recent MLC elections. Meanwhile, Mr. Jagan has asked the party rank and file to stage protests in AP on Tuesday demanding resignation of the Chief Minister.
