YSR dares Govt. to arrest Congressmen

By Our Staff Reporter

ARMOOR, JUNE 29. The Congress Legislature Party leader, Dr. Y. S. Rajasekhar Reddy, has dared the State Government to arrest the Congress leaders and workers if they are involved in the recent bomb blasts in different places of worship in the State.

He was speaking to reporters here after addressing a public meeting, which was witness to a lathicharge on farmers who were agitating against the hike in power tariff last week. He called on one of the injured farmers, Gangaram, Dr. Rajasekhar Reddy launched a frontal attack on the TDP and the BJP, accusing them of trying to shift the blame on the Congress in the wake of the recent bomb blasts in places of worship as well as the violence that followed the blasting of a mosque in Guntur. Dr. Rajasekhar Reddy wondered: ``What prevented the State Government from arresting Congress leaders and party workers if our involvement is found in the recent incidents.''

He said: ``The TDP Government is in power and having failed to contain the ongoing blasts has begun blaming the Congress(I) for the incidents''. This showed its utter failure in controlling law and order and a sense of fear had gripped the minority community in the aftermath of such blasts. The TDP Government had miserably failed to prevent the attacks and was trying to shift the blame on other parties.

Turning his ire against the BJP and the Sangh Parivar, he minced no words in accusing them of resorting to the blasts and repeated his charge that these fundamentalist forces were trying to harm minorities. He said the entire nation knew the history of the BJP and the Sangh Parivar. ``Will the BJP leaders deny the fact that Nathuram Godse was one of the members of the Sangh Parivar?''The CLP leader faulted the Government's announcement of Rs. 25 lakh as reward for any person informing the identity of the accused in the blasts. The Government was totally clueless and in a hopeless situation regarding the blasts.

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