YSR to continue legal battle against CM

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, APRIL 8. The Congress (I) Legislature Party leader, Dr. Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, on Sunday indicated that he would continue to involve the Chief Minister, Mr. N. Chandrababu Naidu, in a legal battle, despite the setbacks he received.

``We will not leave him and his corrupt Government. We will put him on the mat,'' he declared at a press conference here. ``He had declared that his annual income was Rs. 36,000 or Rs. 3,000 per month, ten years ago. Within a decade, he has acquired wealth in his, his wife's and his son's names all worth crores of rupees.''

He said such wealth was clearly disproportionate to his known sources of income. ``It is up to him to prove that he has no ill- gotten wealth. On my part, I will take a vow to prove it.'' He was undeterred by the recent legal setbacks, which were basically because of ``wrong advice and technical reasons.''

Dr. Reddy was responding to questions on the setbacks he received recently. While the Delhi High Court has rejected his plea to hear the petitions he filed against the Chief Minister, the Andhra Pradesh High Court dismissed his review petitions seeking to reopen the petitions against Mr. Naidu that he had earlier withdrawn.

The legal battle has turned out to be a source of acute embarrassment for Dr. Reddy in the face of the adverse judgements by the Delhi High Court and the A.P. High Court. It gave handle to his adversaries in the party to mount a whisper campaign against him in party circles.

The APCC president, Mr.M. Satyanarayana Rao, however refused to be drawn into the controversy over the withdrawal of petitions and the court observations but claimed that the episode would not harm the image of the party.

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