Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly witnessed a storm as the Opposition YSR Congress and ruling TDP locked horns over the alleged "Nepotism" (Bandhu Preeti). While TDP cornered the leader of Opposition YS Jagan Reddy over his distant relative Veera Prathap Reddy being accused in a murder case, Jagan Reddy minced no words and in retaliation he raked up the issue of Nandamuri Balakrishna's gun firing at producer Bellamkonda Suresh making the whole issue more complicated and created tremor of sorts.

Soon after Home Minister Nimmakyala Chinnarajappa made a statement in Assembly on the murder of one Narasimha Reddy in Ongole and stated that Veera Prathap Reddy, relative of YS Avinash Reddy and YS Jagan Reddy, is key accused in the case, the members of YSRCP made huge cry out of it. Reacting to it, Jagan said, "YS Avinash Reddy happens to be my cousin and Veera Prathap Reddy happens to be his relative. Relatives of Prathap were allegedly involved in a murder case that took place some 15 days ago and we have no clue what exactly happened. But TDP painting a political colour to that murder by bringing my lineage to Avinash and Avinash's lineage with Prathap Reddy."

"I'd like to cite just one example. Actor Balakrishna (brother-in-law of Chandrababu Naidu) had shot at one person (producer Bellamkonda Suresh in house sometime back," even before Jagan finished this sentence, Assembly saw strong protests from TDP leaders. Speaker Kodela intervened and tried to calm down the both parties. Jagan Reddy added, "There are many more important issues than this murder incident to discuss in Assembly. Right from the loan waiver to Dwacra women to farmers, there are many vital topics that need Assembly's attention. But TDP is deliberately diverting the focus onto Narasimha Reddy's murder case."

With the name of their own MLA and son of party's founder Balakrishna's name propped up suddenly, TDP too seems to have fallen into defence. Although Jagan smartly played it up Balayya's shoot-out incident, what Jagan forgot is that the issue took place when his own father YS Rajasekhar Reddy was in CM chair.