The social media on Sunday played it cool even as tension mounted up across the state following the arrest of Kadapa MP and YSR Congress chief Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy. Surprisingly, Jagan was conspicuous by his absence on the top trends on the microblogging site, Twitter.
However, his late father, Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy, trended at 9 for a couple of hours, on Twitter India, Hyderabad and Chennai.
Only two days ago, Jagan trended in the top 5, receiving both bouquets and brickbats. However, on Sunday evening, as the news of his arrest broke, there were not many netizens to support or oppose him. Perhaps, the IPL final may have kept the netizens busy tweeting and exchanging views on social media networks about the scores and predicting the winner.
While the Tweets and Facebook exchanges about Jagan centered on his allegedly “ill gotten” assets when he was first called by CBI for questioning on Friday, the subject on Sun-day revolved around YSR and why the Congress kept mum when he was alive.
“Corruption in Karnat-aka was not touched until YSR was CM. It was only after his demise that “two birds” were sought to kill”, tweeted @ssudhirkumar. Sadanand Dhume suggested that someone “needs to patent the process by which YSR clan went overnight from being paragons of ‘inclusive growth’ to ‘symbols of cronyism’.”
A post by Pallavi Ghosh said: “YSR was a mass leader also because of the grip he had over his party in which dissent was seldom tolerated”.
Bhaskar Chatterjee wondered, “Can any disproportionate asset case of YSR be complete without questioning Ahmed Patel and Sonia? But CBI would not touch them”.
For Sunanda Vashist it was “funny” that all the disproportionate assets of Jagan were perfectly proportionate when YSR was the rockstar of Sonia’s bunch of looters.