Even as the entire nation went up in arms against the MIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi for his hate speech and branded him as a traitor, neither the YSR Congress nor its mouth piece the Sakshi media is opening its mouth on the issue. In fact the Sakshi newspaper and TV channel have been putting out news in favour of Akbar and in a way to generate sympathy for him.

This is the reason why opponents of Jagan had alleged that it was as per the screenplay written by Y S Jaganmohan Reddy that Akbaruddin had acted.

Jagan’s party has so far neither condemned unequivocally nor spurned the charges leveled against him and his media. A hot debate is on about the stoic silence of the Jagan bandwagon on this issue.

TRS openly charged Jagan of being the director for the scene unfurled and enacted by Akbar. The party said that it was the plan of Jagan to whip up communal trouble in Hyderabad to scuttle the Telangana process. TRS also said the same strategy through which the then Chief Minister Marri Chenna Reddy was dislodged by creating communal trouble was now being implemented by Jagan and Akbar.

Even to this serious charge, there is no stout rejection from the YSRCP. It is learnt that all the party leaders were instructed not to talk about the issue. Just as a matter of fact, Mysoora Reddy responded and simply said Akbar did wrong. That was all the condemnation from the YSRCP. Party leaders Jitta Bala Krishna Reddy and KK Mahender Reddy who were earlier with the TRS and who constantly attack their former boss KCR also had not responded to this serious charge. There is also no response from Konda Surekha, Bajireddy Govardhan and others who regularly respond to all kinds of statements. Gone Prakasha Rao, the very vocal leader of the YSRCP also hasn’t said anything about it. It is being widely said that the silence was because it was a joint plan of the YSRCP and the MIM. Even the ranks of YSRCP are worried about the silence of the party on such a serious issue