SIT notice on Harish Rao is an attention diversion tactics: KTR

HYDERABAD

Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president KT Rama Rao alleged that Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy decided to harass the party’s senior leader T. Harish Rao as an attempt at revenge after he exposed the coal scam involving the CM’s brother-in-law.

Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, he said Mr. Revanth Reddy has a history of being caught with money bags in cash-for-votes scam and is trying to inflict this mess on others. Despite such harassment in the name of SIT probe into the phone tapping case, BRS leaders would continue to question the Congress on its failure to deliver on its poll promises.

Several members of Mr. Reddy’s Cabinet were involved in one scam or another and some of the ministers linked to the new coal scam were remaining silent, perhaps due to ‘pressure’ from the Prime Minister.

Regarding the phone tapping case, he said that none of the officers investigating the case had said a word so far and Mr. Revanth Reddy was just trying to find out how long he would survive by leaking. It was going on like a soap opera, without any evidence or official information. The Supreme Court had once dismissed a case filed against Mr. Harish Rao in the same phone tapping case.

Mr. Rama Rao observed that every time the BRS uncovered a scam against the Congress government, the Revanth Reddy government resorted to diversionary tactics. The Prime Minister’s family has tried to control nine Singareni tenders so far. For the first time, bids were made above the estimated price in the tenders, and in the past, tenders were awarded for 20 to 25 percent less.

Every bidder who came for the site visit, which was made a prerequisite after the Congress took over in December 2023 as a ploy to make easy money, was being threatened by the Prime Minister’s brother-in-law S. Srujan Reddy, and most of the eligible bidders were not issued site visit certificates.

He also questioned Union Coal Minister G. Kishan Reddy’s silence on this issue and tried to find out whether the BJP was also party to this scam. Mr. Rama Rao requested the sitting judge of the Supreme Court to initiate an investigation into the scam and cancel the contracts of nine Singareni and one Naini.