-YCP afraid to face Assembly on 26 liquor deaths: Anagani
-CM making false claims on illicit liquor
AMARAVATI: TDP MLA Anagani Satya Prasad on Tuesday criticised that Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy was using ‘dictatorial methods’ to suppress the voice of the opposition in the State Assembly.
Satya Prasad said the CM did not give a chance to the TDP members only to prevent the YS Vivekananda Reddy murder issue from coming up for discussion in the House. Three years were over since CM’s own uncle was brutally killed in his own house, Jagan Reddy seemed least bothered about the murder case.
Addressing a press conference at the Assembly premises, the TDP MLA asserted that just like how the Viveka murder was initially portrayed as a heart attack, the 26 Jangareddygudem illicit liquor deaths were projected as natural deaths. The Chief Minister was making false claims that there was no illicit liquor available either in Jangareddygudem or anywhere in the State.
Satya Prasad asked how Minister Botsa Satyanarayana could say in the Council that the CM’s comments on the liquor deaths were his personal opinion. How could the CM make such a personal statement in the Assembly? The YSRCP should explain how 26 healthy persons died if they did not consume illicit liquor.
TDP MLA Bendalam Ashok, who also spoke, said new rules were being brought in the Assembly to suppress the opposition when it stuck to its demand for a detailed debate on the huge death toll in Jangareddygudem hooch tragedy. The TDP members were sent out of the House by using marshals without even giving copies of the Minister’s statement.
Ashok termed it as shameful that the AP Assembly became the first one to run with the help of marshals in the country’s legislature history. Those aged 33 and 40 years also died in Jangareddygudem but the Government refused to take any responsibility. The ruling YCP was trying to cover up a big scam which claimed a large number of innocent lives.
TDP MLA Adireddy Bhavani demanded that the Government should immediately order a full fledged probe into the illicit liquor deaths without further delay. Over 26 victims’ families were thrown on the roads now. The Government should be held accountable for tearing the mangala sutras of 26 women. Every victim family should be given Rs. 25 lakh ex gratia.
TDP MLAs Yeluri Sambasiva Rao and Mantena Rama Raju, who also spoke, deplored that the Jagan Reddy Government was running the Assembly in a unilateral manner without allowing democratic debates in the House. Yesterday, five TDP members were suspended and another 11 members were suspended today. The Speaker was acting unilaterally. The YSRCP regime was perpetrating an autocratic rule that was trampling upon the rights of the opposition and all sections of people.
