Signature campaign for Jagan in full swing

25 Dec, 2012 17:47 IST

Hyderabad, Dec25, 2012: The signature campaign launched by YSR Congress Party protesting against the illegal arrest of its president Sri Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy is in full swing across the state with party leaders and activists fanning out in their respective areas meeting people and collecting signatures.

The ‘People’s Signature for Jagan’ (Jagan Kosam Janam Santhakam) programme, aimed at collecting one crore signatures has been eliciting enthusiastic response from the public, according to reports reaching here from the districts.

In the districts of Adilabad, Guntur, Khammam, Krishna, Kurnool, Nalgonda, Nellore, Srikakulam, Vijayanagaram and West Godavari, party leaders, accompanied by scores of activists, have been interacting with people of all segments and collecting signatures on the appeal to be sent to the President of India Pranab Mukherjee.

The appeal says that Sri Jagan Mohan Reddy has been jailed illegally as a result of the conspiracy by Congress and TDP and CBI, working as a political tool at their behest, has been victimizing him. The appeal seeks the intervention of Pranab Mukherjee to stop the political victimization of Jagan Mohan Reddy.

In most of the towns in these districts, people have lined up at party offices and at the signature camps organized by the local leaders and are competing with each other to affix their signatures on the appeal.