Y S Vijayalakshmi, widow of late chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, is making all out efforts to get her son YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy released from jail as early as possible.

On Monday, Vijayamma knocked the doors of the Election Commission of India requesting its intervention to get Jagan released at the earliest, so that he could take part in the election campaign.

In a letter to Chief Election Commissioner S Y Qureshi, she said she had no choice except to approach him requesting his kind intervention.

“I request you to kindly direct the CBI to immediate release Jagan. They have waited for 270 odd days; they can wait for another 15 days, particularly when there is no possibility, whatsoever, for tampering the evidence. I request you to this in the larger interest of democracy and for free and far elections,” she pleaded.

The honourary president of YSRCP said it was no secret that in all CBI cases involving senior political leaders, the agency acted according to the instructions of Central Government, which is presently the Congress led UPA Government.

“Naturally, the CBI is serving the interest of the Congress Party and is using its high hand to crush the political dissent. It is relevant to recall that all political parties cutting across party lines, during the recent debate on Lok Pal Bill in both the Houses of Parliament, have decried the brazen misuse of CBI by the Central Government to silence the political dissent,” she reminded.