The Election Commission will seek legal opinion, before deciding on the request made by YSR Congress MLA Y.S. Vijayamma, seeking its intervention to order CBI to release her son and party president Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy, arrested in Hyderabad in a corruption case. Sources said the Commission – Chief Election Commissioner S.Y. Quraishi and Election Commissioners V.S. Sampath and H.S. Brahma – would meet on Tuesday and take up the petition from Ms. Vijayamma and consider it along with the legal opinion.
In her memorandum, the wife of late Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, had said the “most undemocratic” arrest of Mr. Jagan, just 15 days before the June 12 by-elections in Andhra Pradesh, was “part of a larger conspiracy to prevent his (Mr. Jagan) participation in the elections with the sole objective of helping the ruling Congress candidates. This is an SOS from YSR Congress Party”. She accused Congress and TDP of misusing every institution with impunity.
