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HYDERABAD
Deputy Floor of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) and erstwhile minister, T. Harish Rao, has alleged that helium was served a announcement successful the telephone tapping lawsuit connected Monday (January 19, 2026) evening aft the alleged engagement of Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy’s brother-in-law successful the Naini ember scam came to airy successful the morning.
Speaking to newspersons earlier going to the Special Investigation Team (SIT) bureau connected Tuesday, helium said nary Congress curate oregon person had spoken astir the ember scam adjacent aft it was revealed by him (Harish Rao) since the Chief Minister had resorted to fire-fighting measures arsenic it (the issue) would origin nonaccomplishment to the ruling enactment successful the ensuing municipal elections.
Former curate and Bharat Rashtra Samiti person T. Harish Rao astatine Jubilee Hills Police Station successful Hyderabad connected Tuesday (January 20, 2026) | Photo Credit: NAGARA GOPAL
He said that facing cases arsenic portion of victimisation was not caller to BRS ranks since the days of abstracted Statehood question successful the erstwhile agreed State and said they were slapped with galore mendacious cases. He would not fearfulness specified cases arsenic helium was a worker readied by BRS laminitis K. Chandrasekhar Rao.
Mr. Harish Rao sought to cognize the destiny of six guarantees and hundreds of different promises. Serving a SIT announcement was different effort astatine diversion authorities by the Chief Minister. He said that Mr. Revanth Reddy tied to prosecute them with specified mendacious cases truthful that the ruling enactment leaders could enactment successful the run for ensuing Urban Local Bodies’ (ULB) elections .
After the Chief Minister’s calculations had gone awry successful the Gram Panchayat elections, helium was trying to marque up successful the ULB polls.
On the phone-tapping case, helium said the play was going connected for the past 2 years. Despite the ruling party’s effort to country BRS, the Opposition enactment leaders had successfully brought to airy scams specified arsenic Hyderabad Industrial Lands Transformation Policy (HILTP), ember and power. He had besides addressed a missive to the Union Coal Minister G. Kishan Reddy demanding a CBI enquiry into the ember scam.
He demanded cancellation of not conscionable the Naini ember tender but each the ember tenders of Singareni Collieries Company Limited on with the argumentation determination taken from 2024.
