Tirupati: Communist Party of India (Marxist) state secretary B V Raghavulu on Tuesday said that the arrest of YSR Congress president and Kadapa MP Jagan Mohan Reddy by the Central Bureau of Investigation gave a room for suspicion that it was an act of political vendetta.

Talking to media persons while participating in the by-election campaign in Chittoor district, Raghavulu accused the CBI of having failed to maintain clarity on Jagan Mohan Reddy's arrest in the assets case.

Suspecting the conspiracy of the Congress and Telugu Desam behind the arrest of Jagan Mohan Reddy, he asked the probing agency as to why it has not initiated such action against other five ministers in the Kiran Kumar Reddy's cabinet, who received notices from the Supreme Court for issuing controversial GOs favouring Jagan.

'The arrest of Jagan by the CBI clearly proves that it is a political revenge taken by the Congress and TDP by conspiring with the CBI,' he said.

Unable to beat Jagan politically in the by-elections, he said that both the ruling Congress and TDP conspired with the CBI and fixed him in the case.

He said that CPI(M) would expose the political gimmicks of both the TDP and the Congress party in the by-elections and appeal to people to teach a fitting lesson to them.

Stating that no party has the right to speak against corruption, he demanded that Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy suspend the corrupt ministers immediately and order probe against them if he has any commitment to eradicate corruption from the State.