A pre-emptive strike to deter MLAs flocking to Jagan camp

The systematic pursuing of cases against YSR Congress leader Jaganmohan Reddy, followed by the just concluded three-day intensive grilling by the CBI — which received wall to wall coverage on Telugu channels — has already set the stage for a groundswell of sympathy for him. His arrest on Sunday evening and the announcement that his mother Vijayamma — widow of Chief Minister Y.S. Rajashekhar Reddy, who died in a helicopter crash in 2009 — will take charge from Monday of the campaign for the coming by-elections to one Lok Sabha seat and 18 Assembly constituencies can only add to the highly surcharged atmosphere in Andhra Pradesh. 

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