When YSRCP chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy talked about curbing corruption at all levels in government after winning Assembly polls with a landslide majority and before taking oath as CM, everyone laughed and mocked at him.
This is because a strong image has been created in the minds of all by 'yellow media' and YSR critics that Jagan is 'most corrupt' due to which he is facing CBI cases and also spent in Chanchalguda jail for 16 months.
But when people started looking at Jagan from Day-1 of him becoming CM on May 30 and his style of functioning as CM, they now started to realise how yellow media and YSR critics have created a 'fake and false image' of Jagan and branded him as "corrupt".
Not only people, even IAS, IPS officials, senior officials in government besides YSRCP's own MLAs and MPs are left shell shocked at Jagan seriously targetting corruption at all levels and telling on their face that he may tolerate anything but will not tolerate corruption at any cost.
YSRCP leaders and officials who dreamt of making some big money in Jagan's rule are now slowly losing their hopes and started realising that it's not possible to amass wealth in the next five years.
In the review meetings being held by CM Jagan for the past three days on various departments, he has been exposing the corruption and how public money was looted left, right and centre by TDP government led by Chandrababu Naidu but still projected as "Anna Hazare" by yellow media.
This corruption is being exposed through Sakshi media everyday with ample proofs leaving public shocked over how TDP leaders drained taxpayers money for their lavish lifestyle, personal gains and for their family members.
In AP State Council of Higher Education, minister Ghanta Srinivasa Rao appointed his henchmen, who claimed bills worth Rs 40 lakh just for consuming dry fruits as evening snacks besides spending another Rs 5 crore to tour various countries and enjoy holidays under the guise of scouting foreign universities for collaborations with AP universities.
Not even a single foreign university entered into MoU with any AP university but Rs 5 crore went down the drain.
This was exposed by Jagan in his review meeting on education department.
Jagan also exposed how former Speaker Kodela Sivaprasad minted crores in the name of 'KST' (Kodela Service Tax) where contractors were forced to pay bribes to Kodela as commission for getting contracts from government.
ABN Andhrajyothy owner, a strong critic of YSR family and Jagan and 'aatma' of Chandrababu Naidu, too admitted Jagan's sincerity in curbing corruption in his weekly column "Kotha Paluku" saying that by doing so Jagan is shedding 'corrupt image' that was falsely imposed on him by his critics.
Though none of the corruption cases were proved by CBI even after seven years, the yellow media and YSR critics branded Jagan as 'corrupt' in the public but the same Jagan as CM is now being seen as a crusader against corruption by public, officials and media.