CM nonchalant despite govt facing embarrassments

His government may be facing the most trying times with several ministers getting caught on the wrong side of the law, but Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy remains nonchalant.

On the one hand the sins of the past are coming to haunt many of his Cabinet colleagues while on the other some more members are causing fresh trouble and landing the government in an embarrassing position.
Of course, Reddy is in an unenviable position as he himself faces the challenge of continuing in Chief Minister's post as the Congress party has suffered severe reverses in the state.
A qualified lawyer, he seems to be clearly adopting the innocent-till-proven-guilty principle in defending his colleagues even as the entire opposition and a section of the Congress are baying for the blood of the tainted ministers.
While one minister, Mopidevi Venkata Ramana, had already been arrested (in the disproportionate assets case) and forced to quit the Cabinet, another minister Dharmana Prasada Rao was chargesheeted in the same case and set to exit.
Four more ministers  J Geeta Reddy, P Sabita Reddy, Ponnala Lakshmaiah and Kanna Lakshminarayana  are sitting with their fingers crossed, anxiously awaiting the outcome of the CBI probe in Jagan's case as well as the iron ore illegal mining case (against mining mafia kingpin Gali Janardhan Reddy).
These four ministers are under the CBI scanner in these cases and there is apprehension that they too may meet the same fate as their other two colleagues.
Another minister K Parthasarathy has been convicted and awarded a two-month jail term in a FERA violation case (though the sentence has since been kept under suspension). The same minister is now facing a case under the Representation of People Act for filing a false affidavit during his election in 2004 and 2009.
PTI