Jagan to meet UP CM today

The CBI Special Court at Nampally on Tuesday gave permission to YSR Congress Party president Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy to visit Lucknow.

The court gave permission after hearing  arguments and counter arguments from  both sides.Jagan to visit Lucknow to meet Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav and his father Mulayam Singh Yadav this afternoon.
This visit is a part of his stated  objective of mobilising the opinion against the 'arbitrary usage of Article 3' of the Constitution that empowers Government of India to create new states.
Jagan has already taken permission to visit Chennai on Wednesday to meet Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa on the same issue. So far he had met West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, Odisha chief minister Navin Patnaik, Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar and Shiv Sena leader Udhav Thakare among other leaders.
Today's meeting with the Samajwadi Party leaders assumes significance as they opposed  the proposal for division of Uttar Pradesh. Apart from demanding the Centre to keep Andhra Pradesh united, he is also seeking the constitutional amendments to restrict the powers of the Centre under Article 3.