New Delhi:

Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed anguish over the stone-pelting attack on Andhra Pradesh Chief Jaganmohan Reddy on Saturday and wished him a speedy recovery and good health.

PM Modi posted on his official X account, “I pray for Andhra Pradesh CM YS Jagan Garu’s speedy recovery and good health.”

Earlier, CM Jagan was left with a deep gash under his eyebrow when he was stone-pelted during bus worship at ‘Memantha Siddham’ in Vijayawada on Saturday night.

According to sources in the ruling YSR Congress, an unidentified person hurled a stone at the chief minister, causing trauma to his left eyebrow.

Party sources further revealed that the chief minister immediately received first aid on the bus.
CM Jagan continued his bus journey after receiving first aid, they added.

Meanwhile, ruling YSRCP leader and the party’s candidate for the upcoming assembly elections in the north constituency KK Raju led a protest in Vijaywada on Saturday against the alleged stone-pelting of Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy Block events.

Raju, who is also chairman of the Andhra Pradesh Non-Conventional Energy Development Corporation (NREDCAP), was at the forefront of the protests along with hundreds of ruling party supporters, conducting sit-ins and chanting slogans condemning the attack. About the Chief Minister.

The YSRCP leader alleged that the TDP, the main opposition force in the state, its NDA partner, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Jana Sena Party led by actor-turned-politician Pawan Kalyan Sena Party), who orchestrated the stone-pelting incident, told reporters, “The TDP and its allies (BJP and BJP) were behind the attack on Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy’s convoy. stone.”

State Information Technology Minister Gudivada Amarnath also condemned the attack on CM Jagan Reddy during the ‘Memantha Siddham’ road show in Vijayawada.

“YSRCP activists across the state and supporters of Jaganmohan Reddy across the world have come out to condemn this attack on our CM. If you (TDP) think Jagan is afraid of Chandrababu Chandrababu) (party president and former chief N Chandrababu Naidu) and the old attack planned by him and his allies, you are wrong, the TDP was planning the murder of Vangaveeti Mohana Ranga in the same Vijayawada district and today it was planned to throw CM Jagan Stones,” the minister claimed.

Notably, the Telugu Democratic Party (TDP), Janata Party and Janata Party (JSP) had earlier announced that they would jointly contest the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in the state. The state has 25 Lok Sabha seats and 175 assembly constituencies.

The Andhra Pradesh Assembly and Lok Sabha elections are scheduled to be held simultaneously on May 13, and the counting date is scheduled for June 4.

To form a government on its own in the state, a party needs to win 88 of the 175 parliamentary seats.

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