Jagan sees plot to arrest him

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With his May 28 date with the CBI drawing closer, YSR Congress chief Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy began getting jumpy and raised the prospect of his arrest on Tuesday. This, he said, was the result of a conspiracy between the Congress, the Telugu Desam and the CBI. While this was so, in a late night development, the CBI reportedly summoned Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy to appear before it on May 25. However, this could not be confirmed.

The summons for May 25, sources said, was to question him on certain aspects of the assets case, while he will be grilled on the deals with Hetero Pharma and others on May 28. Earlier, the Kadapa MP first told an election meeting in the Macherla Assembly segment that Union minister Vayalar Ravi, Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy and director general of police V. Dinesh Reddy had discussed his arrest.

He alleged that Congr-ess and TD leaders had conspired to get him arr-ested. There was a plan to unleash violence following his arrest, and this would be blamed on his followers. The violence would be used as an alibi to defer the bypolls, because the Congress and the TD were not confident of victory, he said. Hours later, he embellished his fears in identical letters to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chief Election Commissioner S.Y. Qureshi. He said he had “credible and reliable information” on how the conspiracy took shape and who were party to it.

REACTIONS
I will respond to Jagan’s statement on Wednesday
–– N. Kiran Kumar Reddy

It is a total lie. I never met Chandra-babu Naidu or the CBI joint director or the DGP. I met the CM and the PCC chief on party matters. That doesn’t mean we hatched a conspiracy
–– Vayalar Ravi

The statement is absolutely baseless and far from the truth. I neither met Vayalar Ravi during his last visit to Hyderabad nor spoke with him
–– Dinesh Reddy

This shows Jagan is afraid of his likely arrest and is blaming others
–– Botsa Satyanarayana