Jagan in Jail: Bharati to Take Care of Business

With the arrest of YSR Congress president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy in the illegal assets case against him, his wife Bharati is set to play a new, bigger role in the family businesses. Bharati, a post graduate in business administration, said she would now play a bigger role in the businesses though she has been involved in running the corporate affairs albeit in a different way.

 

Her mother-in-law Y.S. Vijaya Lakshmi and sister-in-law Sharmila have taken over the mantle of the party's campaigning for the June 12 bye-elections to 18 assembly seats and one Lok Sabha constituency.

"Actually, I have always been part of businesses. For the past one-and-a-half years, since he (Jagan) had no time, so I have been taking a bigger role in business," she said. Dismissing allegations of corruption surrounding Jagan, she said all the businesses of the family are run like an 'open book'.

"Who was Jagan Mohan Reddy, till he became an MP? He was nobody. He was not a minister, not an MLA. He was no one in the government. We shifted to Bangalore in 2002. We moved here (Hyderabad) only in 2010. A year after my father-in-law passed away, we moved here. Not before that," she said.

Modi Is Not Our PM: Owaisi

MIM is a recognized state political party based in the Indian state of Telangana, with its head office in the old city of Hyderabad, which has its roots in the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen founded in 1927. Unlike most of the regional and national level parties, MIM party leaders ‘fight’ only for the well-being of Muslims, whereas no other party has such communal feelings. In their each and every speech, MIM leaders speak only about Muslims. If these leaders are here to fight for Muslims, then why there are no development works are happening in old city area for decades. Akbaruddin Owaisi faced criticism for making hate remarks on Narendra Modi and Hindus. Recently, his elder brother Asaduddin Owaisi made some notorious annotations. In a one-on-one debate between BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra and Asaduddin Owaisi on the topic of demonetization in a popular Hindi channel, the former left no stone unturned in exposing the latter’s communal designs. Owaisi claimed how most of the Muslim community still remains unbanked and that demonetization has caused severe inconvenience to Muslims. He even went on to say that ATM’s in Muslim-dominated areas weren’t fed enough money. He indirectly alleged that the Modi government hadn’t done anything for Muslims. Even after being pressurized Owaisi didn’t call Narendra Modi as his Prime Minister. He went on said, “Your Prime Minister…” On the other hand, Sambit spoke wisely and called Owaisi a leader of small stature because he talked only of Muslims. He said that no area was Muslim or Hindu and that all areas belonged to India. Owaisi was constantly quoting an RBI report, to which Sambit challenged him to show where the RBI had used the word ‘Muslim’. Sambit even said that if a Muslim leader speaks of Muslims it’s not an issue, but the moment a VHP leader speaks of Hindus people go crazy accusing them of imposing the Hindutva ideology. The most amazing of his counters was to Owaisi’s claims of Muslims not having been brought into the banking system. Sambit said that when banks or ATMs are to be opened in Muslim areas leaders like Owaisi shout that banking is un-Islamic and that Muslims should refrain from it! This video of debate between Sambit Patra and Asaduddin Owaisi is going viral in social media.