KADAPA: Land allotments to industries and others had been made by the YSR government as per the decisions taken by the then cabinet and holding the late chief minister alone accountable was nothing but mudslinging, former minister and YSR’s brother YS Vivekananda Reddy has said.His remarks come significantly in the wake of the High Court ordering a full-fledged CBI investigation into the investments by companies into YS Jaganmohan Reddy’s businesses and the land allotment to Dubai-based real estate firm, Emaar-MGF, at Manikonda here.Speaking after unveiling a YSR statue at Loyola College in Pulivendula on Thursday, Vivekananda Reddy said that there was no place for corruption and scams in the YS family. “Our parents raised us as sincere and responsible citizens with good manners. Our upbringing helped us earn a good name in politics. When YSR was chief minister, the land allocations were made according to Cabinet’s decisions and not by YSR alone,’’ he said and condemned mudslinging against YSR who was no more.YSR Congress president and Kadapa MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy said that his father YS Rajasekhara Reddy had striven hard for the growth of the Congress as well as the state and unfortunately some leaders were bent on tarnishing his image. Whatever their status might be, they would meet a bitter end as God was watching everything from above, he remarked.Taking the people of Pulivendula by surprise, the uncle and the nephew, who had been avoiding each other for several months since the split in the family following Jagan’s resignation from Parliament and the Congress, came together on the same dais and whispered to each other for full five minutes in public gaze.Though Jagan had quit the Congress, his uncle stayed on the party and became a minister. Later Jagan floated his own political outfit named after his father. When Vivekananda Reddy decided to contest against his sister-in-law Vijayamma (mother of Jagan) in the by-election from the Pulivendula Assembly constituency, the rift in the family widened further. Vivekananda’s fortunes nosedived with his electoral reverse and was not considered by the party for re-induction at the time of Cabinet expansion. Nor was he, surprisingly, nominated to the Legislative Council under the governor’s quota. He was, more or less, politically isolated. The timing of their coming together, in the wake of the High Court’s direction for a full-fledged CBI investigation into Jagan’s wealth and properties, has naturally set several tongues wagging and people were wondering whether it was the occasion that brought them together or the political and family compulsions.
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