Jagan Calls On Nandigam Suresh, Pledges Support

Guntur: Former Chief Minister and YSRCP president YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Wednesday visited Guntur Jail to call on party colleague and former MP Nandigam Suresh offering his support and assuring that the party will stand by him in every way, following his arrest in a case.

Speaking to the media outside the jail, he condemned the arrest of the former Dalit MP as illegal, stating that the State had never witnessed such a blatant misuse of power. He criticised the government for making arrests when the State was in chaos due to severe rains. He said that Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu’s mismanagement and negligence caused the deaths of nearly 60 people during the floods.

Jagan highlighted that despite the recent floods, the government tried to distract the public by arresting important people like the former MP and husband of Vijayawada’s Deputy Mayor, in the middle of the night on September 4. Mentioning that the flood relief efforts by Naidu were a complete failure, Jagan said the government has been using arrests as a diversion tactic to cover up its shortcomings, particularly in handling the four-year-old TDP office case.