One after the other, ministers of Andhra Pradesh are turning shrill after two of their colleagues were charge-sheeted by CBI in the illegal assets case against YSR Congress chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy.
While their outcry was rather subdued when state Roads and Buildings Minister Dharmana Prasada Rao was named as an accused in CBI charge-sheet in August last, it has suddenly become vociferous after Home Minister Sabita Indra Reddy was listed as accused in the fifth charge-sheet last week.
The very ministers who had stopped discharging their official duties in late 2009 demanding that Jagan be made the Chief Minister, immediately after his father Y S Rajasekhara Reddy's death, are now going to the extent of demanding "capital punishment" for him for having "looted the state's wealth".
The ministers are calling themselves innocent even as CBI is expected to spread its dragnet further in the days to come.
"We blindly signed on every dotted line that YSR placed before us. We never had the guts to question him and we were never aware of the shady deals that Jagan executed behind the scenes," state Finance Minister Anam Ramanarayana Reddy claimed, pleading innocence, while making a reference to Sabita.
He didn't stop at that and went on to demand that Jagan "be hanged" for all the "wrongdoings".
"He has no right to live on this earth," Anam said while making accusations against Jagan's brother-in-law and evangelist Anil Kumar.
The Finance Minister alleged that Jagan has turned the Chanchalguda jail in Hyderabad, where he was lodged as an under-trial prisoner for about 11 months now, into the YSR Congress party office.
