Presidential poll: Jagan casts vote

PTI Updated - November 16, 2017 at 04:37 PM.

HYDERABAD. 29/11/2010: YSR' son Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy waving to his supporters from the balcony of his residence after announcing his resignation as the MP from Kadapa Lok Sabha seat in Banjara Hills in Hyderabad on Monday. He sent in his resignation letter to the Lok Sabha Speaker. Jagan has been at war with the congress over the last couple of weeks after he used his TV channel to attack senior Congress leaders including Prime Minister, Sonia and Rahul Gandhi. PHOTO: NAGARA GOPAL

The YSR Congress chief, Mr Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy, who is currently in jail, today cast his vote in the Presidential election at the Assembly polling station here. Lodged in the Chanchalguda prison here as an undertrial in a disproportionate assets case, Mr Jagan was brought to the Assembly amidst tight security. Mr Jagan’s mother and Pulivendula MLA, Ms Y.S. Vijaya, who was waiting for her son, accompanied him for casting the vote. Earlier, former minister, Mr Mopidevi Venkata Ramana, Jagan’s jailmate in Chanchalguda in the same case, was also brought to the Assembly for casting his vote. Both Mr Jagan and Mr Mopidevi were permitted by the CBI court, trying their case, to vote in the Presidential election.

Published on July 19, 2012 17:19