Demanding a high level inquiry into the call money racket that came to light in Vijayawada, YSR Congress said that the racket had the backing of ruling Party leaders. ‘Vijayawada city, which was 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,’ party spokesperson Vasireddy Padma said on Saturday.

‘Women, housewives and students, have become victims of this racket which lends money for their dire needs and later exploit them and this racket has the backing of the ruling party and efforts are on to pull out the TDP cadre involved in it. We demand that a high level inquiry is ordered into the incident as there are indications that the Government is trying to distance TDP cadre from the racket,’ she said.

The exploitation has being going unabated as the Chief Minister had given enough signals to the officials to keep away from the party cadre. The incident of Chintamaneni Prabhakar being let off had given more muscle to the racketeers, she said.

Meanwhile, PAC member Samineni Uday Banu has said, that the racketeers has the backing of MLAs and MLCs besides local cadre of TDP. They are involved in setting up arches and banners whenever Chief Minister or other dignitaries visit the area and the call money operators have been harassing and pushing women and students into flesh trade.