Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, lodged in Chanchalguda prison, approached the AP High Court on Wednesday with a request to direct the authorities concerned to permit him to communicate, publish and telecast his letters and verbal appeals to the electorate for the June 12 byelections.
“As an MP and president of YSR Congress Party I am constitutionally enabled to be in contact with the people of the state,” he said in the appeal. Jagan, in his writ petition, submitted that most political prisoners were allowed the liberty to communicate with the outside world to propagate their ideas and ideals. Any restriction on such right is unconstitutional, he said. He requested the court to declare as illegal the refusal of permission by the respondents--principal secretary to home, director general of prisons and DIG of Chanchalguda Prison.He further said a calibrated media campaign was perpetrated against him by political rivals, supported by selective leak of details of the CBI investigation.
