Signature campaign for Jagan extended
Hyderabad, Jan 11, 2013: YSR Congress party on Friday announced that the ‘Jagan Kosam Janam Santhakam’ (People’s signature for Jagan) campaign has been extended further and will continue till the party honourary president Smt. Y.S. Vijayamma gets an appointment with the President of India Sri Pranab Mukherjee.
The massive signature campaign is aimed at highlighting the unfair treatment and victimization being meted out to the party president Sri Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy by the CBI.
Disclosing this to reporters at the party head quarters here, party spokesman Ambati Rambabu said the total number of signatures is expected to cross 2 Crores before the campaign comes to a close. Exceeding the target of 1 Crore signatures, the party has so far collected 1.52 Crore signatures from people in the state and elsewhere in the country and abroad as on 20th day on Friday. The figure includes the signatures collected through online forms.
“YSR Congress party honourary president Smt. Y.S. Vijayamma has written to the Rashtrapathi Bhavan seeking an appointment with Sri Pranab Mukherjee. Since it has not yet come through, the party has decided to continue the campaign till we get the Presidential appointment. On the other hand, there is also a tremendous response from the people to the campaign,” he said.
The signatures will be appended to an appeal that will be handed over to Sri Pranab Mukherjee explaining the unfair treatment and victimization being meted out to Sri Jagan Mohan Reddy by the CBI.
“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. 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.