Politician Jagan Mohan Reddy, who had been on a hunger strike for five days to protest against the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, was forcibly moved to a hospital on Wednesday night and force-fed amid concerns about his health.
With fasting YSR Congress leader Jaganmohan Reddy taken into protective custody and forcibly put into hospital, attention is now turning to TDP leader Chandrababu Naidu who is fasting in Delhi against Telangana.
Naidu has already been given an eviction notice from Andhra Bhavan, but has refused to leave, saying that if Reddy was allowed to fast in jail, there should be nothing preventing him from fasting at Andhra Bhavan.
“I will continue my fast. I have done nothing wrong. I will not leave”, a defiant Naidu told reporters on Wednesday.
Meanwhile the Andhra resident commissoner has written to the home secretary, asking him to take action against the TDP chief since he has refused to respond to the Andhra Bhavan notice.
Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde has meanwhile categorically said that the Andhra Bhavan problem was ‘their problem’ and he was ‘not going to deal with it’.
