Jai Bheem Bharat Party president and advocate J. Sravan Kumar wrote a letter to the Attorney General of India requesting him to move the Supreme Court for initiating contempt proceedings against Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, Ministers Botcha Satyanarayana and Gudivada Amarnath and TTD Trust Board Chairman Y.V. Subba Reddy for making statements on shifting the capital to Visakhapatnam when the relevant cases were pending adjudication by the apex court.
Mr. Sravan Kumar stated in the letter that the public utterances by the CM and others on shifting the capital from Amaravati to Visakhapatnam were likely to be prejudicial to and interfere with the judicial process. The action of commenting on a matter which was pending adjudication by the apex court amounted to criminal contempt.
He said the comments made by Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy and the members of his Cabinet came on the same day when the Supreme Court was scheduled to hear the Special Leave Petition filed by the Andhra Pradesh government against the High Court order on the proposed ‘three capitals’. The statement made by the CM in the curtain-raiser event related to the Global Investor Summit at New Delhi created a suspicion whether he knew about the apex court’s judgement even before it began hearing the cases, Mr. Kumar added.
