Jagan Mohan says he\'s allowed to continue yatra

First, he said, in what was seen as a gesture of defiance, that his yatra in Telangana would continue. Now, Jagan Mohan Reddy says his party has sanctioned the controversial tour.



Reddy, son of former Andhra chief minister YSR Reddy, met with senior Congress leader Veerappa Moily in Delhi on Tuesday morning. Reddy claims that Moily \" asked me to go ahead with my yatra.\" YRS Junior says Moily expressed his appreciation of the tour, and that he now plans to finish his tour in August.



The Congress has been worried about the impact of the tour in the fraught atmosphere of Telangana, where the demand for a separate state repeatedly leads to violent demonstrations. Jagan Mohan has expressed his opposition to the creation of a new state.



Last week, as he entered the Warangal district, pro-Telangana campaigners clashed with the police as they expressed their opposition to Jagan\'s arrival.



The Congress had asked Jagan Mohan to cancel his tour. He was summoned to Delhi on Monday to explain his position.



Jagan\'s defence: that he \"is not conducting this tour as a politician\", and that his heart \"is free of any guilt\'. The MP expressed his hope for a meeting with Sonia Gandhi -a meeting that did not materialize, in what some say was a sign of the party\'s disapproval of his stance. Jagan Mohan, however, told reporters, \"I have huge respect for Sonia Gandhi. Please do not turn this into a stand-off between the party and me.\"



Jagan says that after his father died in a helicopter crash in September, he promised to visit families whose members died or killed themselves reportedly out of grief over YSR\'s loss.



He also lashed out at Andhra Chief Minister K Rosaiah, who took over after YSR\'s death even as Jagan\'s supporters campaigned for him to be made chief minister. \"I am in Delhi to tell the high command...in who I have a lot of faith...about the event that took place. That is the most important thing that I should be doing. I have nothing to do with Rosaiah. It is my faith and my affection towards Madam that is primarily important. It wouldn\'t make any difference to me whether it is Rosaiah or anyone else. The way Rosaiah handled the situation is not acceptable,\" he said.



On Monday, Reddy had said he was ready to quit as Kadapa MP if it was proved that he had politicised the visit even as he insisted on continuing with the yatra.


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