Paritala wife to counter Vijayalakshmi effect
The Telugu Desam is planning to play an ace by roping in the party’s Raptadu MLA Paritala Sunita to counter the campaigning by YSR Congress chief Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy’s mother Y.S. Vijayalakshmi ahead of next month’s byelections.
According to sources, Ms Sunita's canvassing could be especially handy for TD in Anantapur and Kurnool districts.
On Tuesday, a day before Ms Vijayalakshmi hits the campaign trail taking over from her son arrested in the illegal investments case, Ms Sunita harped on the death of her husband, former Penugonda MLA Paritala Ravindra, to put the YSR family in a fix.
Ms Sunita, who plans to sit on a dharna at the Ambedkar Statue in Anan-tapur from Wednesday though the police have refused permission, claim-ed her husband was killed in 2005 at the behest of late Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy and Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy.
While the CBI had failed to find evidence against the two, Ms Sunita is demanding that the case be reopened, contending it was not probed properly during YSR's tenure as CM. Eight persons were given life imprisonment in the case.
She said, “The CBI interrogated Jagan at his residence but could not make any headway. Jagan's arrest (now) is thus partial justice. The facts (of Paritala Ravindra murder) should come out and the guilty be punished.”
Referring to Ms Vijayala-kshmi now “wailing for her son”, Ms Sunita accused YSR and Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy of playing a “politics of murder”.
She said, “Ms Vijayalak-shmi says her son is innocent. But 160 people owing allegiance to Paritala Ravi, and he himself, were killed at the behest of YSR and Jagan. Like mine, several other families were destro-yed. There were rumours that she insisted on killing Partiala Ravindra, fearing he might kill Jagan.”
Playing the sympathy card, Ms Sunita said her son, too, has lost his father. She said, “Paritala Ravin-dra helped the poor and scores of people were depe-ndent on him. If Ms Vijaya-lakshmi had convinced her husband not to indulge in politics of murder, things would have been different.”
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