YSR Congress Party president YS Jagan Mohan Reddy's sister Sharmila today slammed Chief Minister Kiran kumar Reddy and TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu for, what she called, resorting to cheap gimmicks to project Jagan in a poor light.

Speaking at a largely attended public meeting in Ananthapur district as part of her ongoing Maro Praja Prasthanam, Sharmila said that the Congress and the TDP are stooping so low to criticize Jagan. Alleging that both the parties had hatched a conspiracy in collusion with the CBI which finally led to the illegal arrest of Jagan, Sharmila said the sole aim of both the Congress and the TDP is that a third alternative political party should not survive in the State.

Pointing out the Chief Minister's remarks at a public meeting in Medak district during the Indiramam Baata programme that for whose sake Jagan had gone to jail, Sharmila asked had he (Jagan) not undertaken fasts and other agitational programmes for the sake of farmers, weavers and other sections of society. Perhaps, Kiran kumar and Naidu are unable to digest the rising popularity of Jagan and thus they are resorting to hatching plot after plot only to unpopularise Jagan.

Sharmila even mentioned the Union Minister and in-charge of Congress affairs in the State Ghulam Nabi Azad's statement that had Jagan remained with the Congress he would have been made as a Union Minister or even the chief minister. So, Jagan is put to untold hardships only because he left the Congress and floated his own outfit only with the aim of serving people, she said. People can easily perceive the meaning behind the statements of these leaders, Sharmila said.

Jagan will soon come out on bail, she said and promised a larger budgetary allocation for farming sector when the YSRCP comes to power..