Vijayawada, Nov. 22 -- The court proceedings involving former Chief Minister and YSR Congress Party president YS Jagan Mohan Reddy were allegedly secretly recorded and circulated to tarnish his image, prompting the party to urge the court to treat it as contempt and take stringent legal action against the perpetrators and media outlets involved.

Former MLA and YSRCP SC Cell state president TJR Sudhakar Babu, speaking to the media at the party's central office in Tadepalli, near here on Saturday emphasized that YS Jagan Mohan Reddy's immense public admiration, evident even after the recent election defeat, has left the TDP unable to cope, leading to such low-level tactics to defame him.

He alleged a full-fledged political plot in secretly ...