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. .