Security was on Sunday enhanced around the Chanchalguda Central Prison here where jailed YSR Congress chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy has started an indefinite fast to protest the move to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh.
However, jail authorities said that they did not get any information from Jagan about his fasting.
‘He (Jagan) has not given us any representation on his fast. He has to give in writing and inform but so far there is no intimation,’ Chanchalguda jail superintendent B Saidaiah said.
YSR Congress party president YS Jaganmohan Reddy on Sunday began indefinite fast inside the Chanchalguda Central Jail here.
Jagan, as the MP from Kadapa is popularly known, refused tea and breakfast on Sunday morning, as his fast began.
Although the party announced that its leader was on fast, jail officials said they did not know of the development, and said Jagan had not sought permission for the fast. The jail officials said they would offer a response in the matter in 24 hours.
Prison authorities have already warned that if Jagan goes on fast, he will lose the opportunity to meet any visitors. They indicated that he may also lose the privileges he currently enjoys as special class prisoner.
Jagan, who has been lodged in jail for over a year in a disproportionate assets case, began the fast a day after police forcibly ended his mother YS Vijayamma’s fast in Guntur.
Vijayamma, who was shifted to hospital from a hunger strike camp, called off her fast on the sixth day, on a request from her son.
The YSR Congress has been demanding that Andhra Pradesh not be bifurcated, if the Centre cannot do justice to all its regions. Vijayamma alleged that the Congress Working Committee took a decision to divide the state without doing justice to all the regions.
However, jail authorities said that they did not get any information from Jagan about his fasting.
‘He (Jagan) has not given us any representation on his fast. He has to give in writing and inform but so far there is no intimation,’ Chanchalguda jail superintendent B Saidaiah said.
YSR Congress party president YS Jaganmohan Reddy on Sunday began indefinite fast inside the Chanchalguda Central Jail here.
Jagan, as the MP from Kadapa is popularly known, refused tea and breakfast on Sunday morning, as his fast began.
Although the party announced that its leader was on fast, jail officials said they did not know of the development, and said Jagan had not sought permission for the fast. The jail officials said they would offer a response in the matter in 24 hours.
Prison authorities have already warned that if Jagan goes on fast, he will lose the opportunity to meet any visitors. They indicated that he may also lose the privileges he currently enjoys as special class prisoner.
Jagan, who has been lodged in jail for over a year in a disproportionate assets case, began the fast a day after police forcibly ended his mother YS Vijayamma’s fast in Guntur.
Vijayamma, who was shifted to hospital from a hunger strike camp, called off her fast on the sixth day, on a request from her son.
The YSR Congress has been demanding that Andhra Pradesh not be bifurcated, if the Centre cannot do justice to all its regions. Vijayamma alleged that the Congress Working Committee took a decision to divide the state without doing justice to all the regions.