Jagan shows a string of incidents to dub TDP as intolerant to women

As AP Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu completed his address in connection with International Women's Day on Tuesday, YCP leader Jaganmohan Reddy launched an attack on the ruling Telugu Desam Party for its highhandedness in regard to women. Jagan recalled the one-year suspension on Roja, YCP MLA, by the State Assembly, attack on tahsildar Vanajakshi, Nagarjuna University student Rishiteshwari suicide as also the recent attempt to outrage the modesty of a woman by a Minister's son as instances of TDP's highhandedness against women. He said the TDP was out on a spree against women. Speaking in regard to his son, Minister Ravela Kishore Babu said the ruling party was going by the guideline set by former Chief Minister NT Rama Rao. Ravela said he had himself handed over his son, Susheel, to the police in connection with the Nirbhaya case in Hyderabad. He said if his son's guilt was proven in the case, he would be ready for any sentence on his son. Ravela sharply pointed out in this regard Jagan's own role in the killing of Paritala Ravi, the TDP leader. The Minister recalled how the then chief Minister, YS Rajasekhar Reddy, had shielded his son, Jagan, from being subjected to a CBI probe using his official position. The TDP would never resort to such tactics. This exchange was enough trigger to the opposition and treasury benches to a bout of shouts and counter-shouts.