Jagan gets a reprieve,but no audience with Sonia

Y S Jaganmohan Reddy would not get any audience with Congress president until 'he mends his ways'.

Under fire from the party leadership for violating the Congress high commands directive asking him not to go ahead with his Odarpu (consolation) yatra in Telangana region last week,Kadapa MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy on Monday earned a reprieve from the party high command. While the party would not initiate any action against him,he would not get any audience with Congress president Sonia Gandhi until he mends his ways,said party sources.

Jaganmohan,who landed in New Delhi on Sunday night,had sought an appointment with the Congress president and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee. But they were unlikely to give him an appointment,it was reliably learnt. Sources said Jagans latest act of defiance of the high commands instructions about not going to Telangana might delay his rehabilitation. The Congress leadership was earlier considering his induction as Minister of State in the Union Council of Ministers,said sources.

Jaganmohan got the reprieve after he told senior party leaders here that he was committed to the party and Sonia Gandhi,and would do nothing against her wishes. Sources said the Kadapa MP was asked to defer his Odarpu (consolation) yatra for the time being and he had agreed to it.

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Earlier in the day,Jaganmohan maintained that he had done nothing wrong and he was ready to quit his Lok Sabha seat if it was proved that his visit was political in nature. It cannot be stopped. I have sought appointments with the party high command to apprise them of what has happened. I will explain them that I have done nothing wrong, he told reporters here.

According to the Kadapa MP,as a dutiful son of his late father,it was his moral responsibility to meet and console the families of those who had laid their lives for his father. It is my duty and moral responsibility. I went to Khammam district some time back and I met 54 families there. Never ever had I made a single political statement. You can recall the tapes,and if you can prove that even in one meeting in Khammam district in Telangana that I have politicised (the yatra),I am ready to go to any extent; even I am ready to resign, said Jaganmohan.

Asked if the Congress was upset with Jaganmohan,AICC in charge of Andhra Pradesh Veerappa Moily said,No,no,he is a young man and son of our great leader Rajasekhara Reddy and he is always with the Congress. Dont worry about it.

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