"The CBI owes an explanation to the people on the Jagan issue. Otherwise, the CBI will be making the sobriquet Congress Bureau of Investigation true," CPI-M Politburo member and Andhra Pradesh state secretary B V Raghavulu said.
He questioned why the Central agency has not arrested Jagan and other accused, including some industrialists and bureaucrats, in the case so far despite serious charges levelled against them.
"The CBI should tell people why only (Jagan's auditor) Vijayasai Reddy was arrested in the case and not the other accused," Raghavulu demanded.
The TDP alleged the Centre was desperately trying to protect the YSR Congress president in the assets case.
Union Ministers Pranab Mukherjee and P Chidambaram took the responsibility on them to protect Jagan, senior TDP MLAs Devineni Umamaheswara Rao and M Linga Reddy alleged.
"It is very clear that the Congress has colluded with Jagan and hence he is not being arrested despite three charge- sheets filed in the case...The fact that only summonses were issued (asking Jagan to appear in court) and not an arrest warrant exposes the clandestine deal between the YSR Congress and Congress," Rao said.
Referring to Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy's remarks at an election rally yesterday that Jagan has built a palatial house with 70 rooms, the TDP leaders wondered if the former discovered it only now.
