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HYDERABAD
The moving president of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) and erstwhile curate K.T. Rama Rao has accused Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy of indulging successful his (KTR’s) quality assassination for the past 2 years successful the sanction phone-tapping lawsuit and harassing him and different BRS leaders without uncovering immoderate substance against them truthful far.
Mr. Rama Rao met with immoderate elder leaders of the enactment astatine the BRS bureau successful Hyderabad connected Friday (January 23, 2026) greeting earlier going to the Special Investigation Team (SIT) bureau successful effect to a notice received successful the telephone tapping case. The enactment leaders including S. Madhusudana Chary, T. Harish Rao, R.S. Praveen Kumar, G. Sunitha Mahender Reddy and respective others were contiguous astatine the enactment office.
“I person ne'er indulged successful immoderate amerciable and immoral activities including phone-tapping during the astir 10-year play of BRS rule. The Congress Government has resorted to my quality assassination by levelling baseless charges against maine stating that I person got a heroine’s telephone tapped and took drugs. It has caused intelligence agony to my household members including my children”, Mr. Rama Rao said.
In fact, immoderate of the Cabinet members person already revealed privately that their telephone were being tapped astatine the behest of the Chief Minister Revanth Reddy and they were disquieted adjacent to talk connected phone, the BRS person said and asked whether immoderate constabulary serviceman progressive successful the probe of the lawsuit could accidental connected grounds that phones were not being tapped successful the State now.
Stating that phone-tapping would beryllium done by the Police section legally successful lawsuit determination was a menace to the country’s information oregon determination were attempts to destabilise a government, specified arsenic the 2015 incidental of “a thief being caught red-handed with a currency container to bribe an MLA seeking his enactment for Telugu Desam Party campaigner successful the MLC predetermination successful 2015. Now, the aforesaid thief is successful vengeance mode and harassing the BRS leaders”.
Mr. Rama Rao said the BRS leaders were being harassed successful the sanction of Kaleshwaram, formula-e car and different cases arsenic they had been exposing scams involving the Congress leaders and their kin successful the ember overburden contracts and respective others. The enactment person Mr. Harish Rao was served a announcement by the SIT connected the aforesaid time connected which helium had spilled beans connected the coal scam.
Mr. Rama Rao asserted that helium would not permission anybody including the constabulary officers who were showing implicit enthusiasm successful the sanction of lawsuit probe and instrumentality indispensable ineligible action. Earlier, a ineligible squad of the BRS explained Mr. Rama Rao astir the benignant of questions helium was apt to look from the SIT. Mr. Harish Rao excessively stated that they (BRS) would not spare the constabulary officers kowtowing to the Congress party, adjacent aft their (officers) retirement.
