First Published : 09 Feb 2009 10:39:00 AM ISTLast Updated : 09 Feb 2009 03:18:12 PM IST
HYDERABAD: Two politicians from Germany and Ireland will tour Kadapa district for four days on a fact-finding mission to know the irregularities in the election process.
Ireland Parliament member Fiona O Malley and former member of European Parliament Brigitte Langenhagen will tour Kadapa district, including Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy’s native Pulivendula Assembly segment.
Both the leaders are visiting the country for the first time on a request by Palem Srikanth Reddy, a TDP leader from Kadapa district.
Srikanth Reddy, an NRI who returned to country nine months back, had been active in the TDP and was elected as president of the TSNV, a cell for professionals affiliated to the TDP. Society For Influence Of Professionals On The Political System (SIPOPS), a voluntary organisation, conducted a study on politics in Kadapa district and observed that conduct of elections in the district was characterised by intimidation, influence of money power, harassment of political opponents and misuse of administration. The SIPOPS wanted Malley and Langenhagen to visit Kadapa and give a report.
Speaking to reporters here today, Malley and Langenhagen said they were shocked over the reports in a section of the regional media on Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy’s son Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy.
They said though they were active in Election Monitoring Institution, which watched the poll process across the globe, they decided to visit Kadapa district in their individual capacity.
Srikanth Reddy told reporters that he had decided to evaluate the political system in Kadapa district with a third party organisation having international experts.
The team would travel extensively in Kadapa district from February 9 to 12 and submit a report, he said.
He further said he would move the High Court or even the Supreme Court and was even prepared to seek the intervention of the United Nations Organisation (UNO) and human rights groups, based on the report submitted by the two international politicians.
Srikanth Reddy was the aspirant of the Kadapa Lok Sabha constituency from the TDP.
The Congress is likely to field Jagan Mohan Reddy as its candidate from there. Srikanth Reddy, however, said the exercise of evaluating Kadapa politics had nothing to do with the TDP.
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