1.52 Crore signatures collected for Jagan

Hyderabad, Jan 10 2013: The massive signature campaign ‘Jagan Kosam Janam Santhakam’ (People’s signature for Jagan), launched by the YSR Congress Party on Dec 22, 2012  to collect one crore signatures highlighting CBI’s victimization of its president Sri Y.S.Jagan Mohan Reddy, has drawn huge and tremendous response from people.

The party leaders and activists have collected 1.52 crore individual signatures from the people when the 20-day campaign, kicked off and personally monitored by the party honourary president Smt. Y. S. Vijayamma, ended on Thursday. The figure includes the number of signatures obtained through online forms and from the party activists in Maharashtra.

The signatures will be appended to an appeal that will be sent to the President of India Sri Pranab Mukherjee explaining the unfair treatment and victimization being meted out to Sri Jagan Mohan Reddy by the CBI.

As party leaders ranging from the political affairs committee to the grass root level at the villages moved on the streets and organized special camps collecting signatures, people voluntarily came forward to affix their signatures across the state.

In most districts, people had formed queues at YSR Congress party offices and at special camps to affix their signatures.

“Sri Jagan Mohan Reddy has been jailed for more than seven months for the simple reason of his coming out the Congress and launching his own political party. Working under political pressure, the CBI has been going overboard to project him as the culprit in a case foisted on him as part of the political vendetta. With biased investigation, the probing officials have been resorting to misuse of their official position and destroying the propriety of the investigating agency. We appeal to you to intervene and stop this political vendetta and victimization of Sri Jagan Mohan Reddy,” says the party’s appeal to Pranab Mukherjee.

The appeal points out that Sri Jagan Mohan Reddy was singled out for victimization by the CBI while the agency has been applying a different yardstick in cases related to Mulayam Singh Yadav and Mayawathi in UP and Chandrababu Naidu in AP.

Party coordinator PNV Prasad said the appeal will be sent to Shri Pranab Mukherjee along with the signatures. “The signatures-appended appeal in soft and hard copies will be sent to the President,” he said. .