BRS hit at Telangana self-respect with phone tapping: Ponnam Prabhakar

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Transport Minister Ponnam Prabhakar said the Telangana question symbolised self-respect and corporate conflict but the amerciable tapping of phones of Telangana citizens, officers, governmental leaders and adjacent their household members was an insult to the self-respect.

Describing it arsenic a ‘heinous crime’ that strikes astatine the precise instauration of the Telangana Statehood movement, helium asked the BRS enactment to introspect wherefore they had to insult the Telangana nine with specified a crime.

Speaking to reporters successful Husnabad, helium alleged that erstwhile those progressive successful the lawsuit were summoned arsenic portion of the investigation, they attempted to make unrest by calling for convulsive protests and trying to summation governmental mileage.

“If an probe causes truthful overmuch discomfort, it lone raises superior questions. By tapping phones, you intrude into the backstage lives of individuals and cod accusation related to their economic, business, political, nonrecreational and household matters,” Mr. Prabhakar said. He asserted that the instrumentality would instrumentality its ain people and clarified that determination was nary constituent of vendetta oregon conspiracy successful the investigation.

At different property conference, elder Congress person V. Hanumantha Rao said the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the telephone tapping lawsuit had already questioned respective individuals and that erstwhile Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao was examined arsenic portion of the aforesaid process.

He wondered wherefore the BRS was abruptly invoking the contented of self-respect. “When TRS was renamed arsenic BRS, did self-respect not travel to caput then?” helium questioned. He criticised BRS leaders for speaking astir vendetta and self-respect now, pointing retired that cases were filed against Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy and helium was sent to jailhouse earlier. “Was that not vendetta?” helium asked.

Published - February 02, 2026 09:43 p.m. IST

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