Jagan run out of options
Hyderrabad: With the highest court in the country rejecting his plea to stop raids by the CBI, the beleaguered leader of YSR Congress, Jaganmohana Reddy, seems to have run out of legal options for now.
The mood of the country being what it is with a number of scams under probe, important political personalities in Tihar jail and Anna Hazare sitting on hunger strike in Delhi to force the government to be more transparent and accountable, the Supreme Court's decision was not expected to be otherwise.
After the first ruling refusing to interfere with the High Court orders, Mr Reddy should have desisted from approaching the Supreme Court again. Some of the senior AICC leaders who were close to YS Rajasekhara Reddy, when the latter was PCC president and chief minister, have been privately expressing unhappiness at the turn of events in Andhra Pradesh.
Digvijay Singh, Vylar Ravi and Gulam Nabi Azad, all of whom were in-charge of Congress affairs in the state at one time or the other, reportedly tried to dissuade the son of their friend from taking to the path of confrontation with the party president and UPA chairperson.
Had he continued to challenge a chief minister or attack a central minister, Sonia Gandhi would not have taken serious objection. She would not act against any party leader on disciplinary grounds as long as she remained the final arbitrator.
But blatant defiance by the young leader who went out of the party to float his own outfit was not something that the most powerful politician in the country could take. All political options for Jagan in the Congress party were thus foreclosed.
Efforts by well-wishers like Sabbam Hari, MP from Anakapally, to try and make peace with the high command did not succeed as there was not a single leader at that level who had the gumption to suggest to either Rahul Gandhi or his mother that Jagan's case be reconsidered.
Leaders like Manish Tiwari or Sandip Dikshit, even if they want to be of some help, don't have the access or the stature. More over, things by then have gone to a point of no return. As a result, Jagan has to depend on his own resourcefulness in his fight against heavy odds.
News Posted: 25 August, 2011
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