Oppn is instructed not to remark about Jagan in the Viveka case

Regarding the assassination of former minister YS Vivekananda Reddy five years ago, the Kadapa district principal district court on Thursday issued interim orders prohibiting Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, YSRC Kadapa MP candidate YS Avinash Reddy, her cousin Narreddy Suneetha, TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu, JSP chief Pawan Kalyan, and others from making defamatory remarks against YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, chief minister YS Sharmila, and others from making disparaging remarks about them.

The court ruled that the respondents may neither refer to Avinash Reddy as his uncle Vivekananda Reddy’s “murderer” or claim that Jagan is defending him.

The YSRC had its district president in Kadapa, K Suresh Babu, submit a plea with the senior district judge asking for the court to prohibit the respondents from implying that Jagan and Avinash were responsible for Viveka’s murder.

TDP national general secretary Nara Lokesh, BJP State head Daggubati Purandeswari, JSP chairman Pawan Kalyan, TDP leader M Ravindranath Reddy, and Sharmila, Suneetha, and Naidu were among the other responses. According to the petitioner, the CBI was given charge of the Viveka murder case, and Avinash Reddy’s bail was increased.\

Respondents are advised to delete offensive remarks.

The case is still ongoing before the Telangana CBI court in Nampally. Suresh Babu said that throughout their election campaign, the respondents made false, slanderous, and defamatory statements about Jagan and Avinash Reddy in public. These statements were then disseminated via print, electronic, and social media channels.

The court instructed the respondents to desist from making disparaging remarks about Jagan and Avinash Reddy. It also requested that the respondents and their allies take down any offensive remarks that they had previously made about the YSRC, its president Jagan Mohan Reddy, and Avinash Reddy on print, electronic, and social media platforms.

In addition, the court ordered the respondents to stop their party officials and candidates from attacking other people personally and disparaging competitors based on unsubstantiated claims or misrepresentations or on ongoing legal matters in the appropriate court.

The respondents were also instructed by the court to maintain appropriate standards of public discourse, closely follow the current Model Code of Conduct (MCC) in light of the upcoming general elections, and concentrate on their own party’s program.

However, if any other parties had failed, they may be criticized for it. On April 30, a new hearing was scheduled for the matter.