Telugu Desam Party (TDP) politburo member, Varla Ramaiah, on Thursday demanded the resignation of Chief Minister, Jagan Mohan Reddy, as he is misusing his position to delay the investigation into the murder of his paternal uncle, Y S Vivekandanda Reddy.

Ramaiah told media persons at the TDP headquarters here that Jagan Mohan Reddy should feel ashamed at the comments made by the Supreme Court division bench. The Chief Minister is making every effort to dilute the murder case by misusing his power, he added.

Vivekananda Reddy’s daughter Sunitha Reddy knocked at the door of the Supreme Court seeking transfer of the murder case of her father to some other State, Ramaiah pointed out and said that Jagan, who is sitting in the Chief Minister’s chair, should feel guilty of this. Though it is more than three years and seven months since Vivekananda Reddy has been executed, till now no measures have been initiated to bring the accused to book, he said.

It is a known fact that the State government is not cooperating with the CBI, which is investigating the case, and the local police, in fact, are trying to safeguard the accused, all these issues clearly indicate the active role of Jagan in neutralising the case, the TDP politburo member said. If Jagan has any ethical values, he should immediately step down from the post of the Chief Minister, he said.

The CBI too, in its affidavit submitted before the division bench of the apex court, agreed with Sunitha Reddy that the witnesses and the investigative officers are being subjected to various kinds of inconvenience, Ramaiah observed. The CBI also agreed with the view that even one of the accused, Dasthagiri, who turned approver in the case, too is being harassed.