YSR Congress president and Opposition leader YS Jaganmohan Reddy urged governor ESL Narasimhan to direct the state government to recommend an inquiry into the Call Money Racket by a sitting judge of High Court of Hyderabad.
Jagan called on the governor today and presented a memorandum to this effect. Jagan alleged that chief minister Naidu was backing all the ‘criminal elements’ in the name of TDP leaders , who were involved in the mafia activities. He said these forces, emboldened by the support they were getting from none other than the chief minister himself, had turned Vijayawda, the temporary capital , into crime capital of Andhra Pradesh. Jagan brought to the notice of governor how the chief minister instructed officials in the collectors conference yesterday and today to go soft on TDP leaders and MLAs, and carry them along in the developmental activities.
This instruction to officials was responsible for brazen illegal activities in Vijayawada city, he said and added that these forces had “let loose a reign of terror in the state and have completely gone berserk robbing everything that is coming their way”.
Sand mafia, liquor mafia, real estate mafia and now Call Money racket ,which had put everybody to shame, were all being controlled by the TDP leaders and their followers, Jagan told the governor.
“Vijayawada city, which has been adopted by Chief Minister as his seat of governance, has turned into a crime capital with the Call Money racket spreading its net over gullible women and pushing them into sex racket. The gang was busted following a complaint from a woman, who along with her daughter was forced into prostitution after she approached them for money for her daughter’s higher studies,” Jagan narrated in the three-page letter.
Jagan alleged that the CM was directly using these MLAs and Ministers as his proxies. “Now that it has come out in the open chief minister Chandrababu Naidu had to give a call to the victims not to pay the loans taken from Call Money operators only to save his skin,” he said.
Stating that no TDP leader had been arrested so far, Jagan expressed apprehension that the matter might be hushed up in due course. He appealed to the government to immediately direct the State Government to order Judicial inquiry into the matter by a sitting High Court judge to bring the culprits to book.
