Andhra Deputy CM Narayana Swami Booked Over 'Derogatory' Remarks Against Sonia Gandhi

Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee senior vice president Mallu Ravi filed a complaint with the police over Swamy's alleged comments linking Sonia Gandhi and TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu.

Andhra Deputy Chief Minister and YSRCP leader K Narayana Swamy. ( Image Source :ANI )

New Delhi: The police have registered a case against Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister K Narayana Swamy after a complaint was filed by a Telangana Congress leader that he made derogatory comments against party leader Sonia Gandhi, news agency PTI reported on Saturday.

Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee senior vice president Mallu Ravi filed a complaint with the police over Swamy's alleged comments linking Sonia Gandhi and TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu for the death of former CM of undivided Andhra Pradesh Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, as repoted by PTI. Rajasekhara Reddy died in a chopper crash in 2009.

The complainant alleged, among others, that Swamy spread false information. Police had made an entry of the complaint and sent it for legal opinion.

After taking legal opinion and analysing video footage of the comments made by Narayana Swamy, police registered a case under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) and 505 (2) (statements conducing to public mischief), as reported by news agency IANS.

Narayana Swamy had repeated his comments after Mallu Ravi's complaint. He had said that besides him the entire population of Andhra Pradesh has doubts about the helicopter crash claimed the life of YSR. He stated that TDP president and former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and Sonia Gandhi were behind YSR's death.

YSR, father of current Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, had died in a helicopter crash on September 2, 2009. He was the chief minister of then undivided Andhra Pradesh.