YSR Congress party has decided to step up its protests against the alleged harassment of the social media activists of the party by the Telugu Desam Party-led coalition government in Andhra Pradesh.
YSRCP president and former chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, who returned to the Tadepalli party office from Bengaluru on Wednesday, met the victims of police harassment on the charges of abusive postings on social media.
A Dalit activist of YSRCP Puli Sagar narrated his woes to Jagan how he was being harassed by the police in Rajahmundry.
The YSRCP chief assured him that the party will stand by him and the issue would be escalated to national level.
The activist alleged that the police inspector behaved in an inhuman manner by abusing him taking his caste, besides being beating him up in the lock-up.
Jagan said that the matter would be taken up with the National Human Rights Commission, and National SC, ST Commission by the party.
Earlier, the victim told media at the Party office that Rajamahendravaram inspector had put him in lock up and beaten him up besides harassing him abusing him in the name of his caste.
Former MP Margani Bharat and former MLA TJR Sudhakar Babu, who accompanied him, said that the government has been harassing social media activists by foisting false cases.
“They have been registering multiple cases for the same issue at different places and harassing them. We will take legal recourse and stand by the activists,” the YSRCP leaders said.
