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Former Minister and BRS Deputy Floor Leader T. Harish Rao said helium was prepared for immoderate just investigation, provided the aforesaid yardstick was applied to Chief Minister Revanth Reddy, Ministers and their associates.
“I americium acceptable for a probe by a sitting High Court judge, not a pouch instauration similar the CB-CID. Is Mr. Revanth Reddy ready?” helium asked, denying that helium had ever sought idiosyncratic favours from Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy.
Addressing a property league connected Sunday, Mr. Rao said the BRS had written to the Chief Minister alleging 20 large scams nether the Congress authorities and challenged him to bid probes into each of them. He further alleged fiscal and governmental linkages betwixt Mr. Revanth Reddy and Minister Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy successful onshore settlements and declaration allocations.
Among circumstantial allegations, helium claimed that the Kodangal–Narayanpet Lift Irrigation tender was awarded to interests linked to Mr. Ponguleti, the Musi stream beautification tender was being steered similarly, and amerciable extraction worthy hundreds of crores had occurred successful Rajendranagar’s Manasa Hills.
Mr Harish Rao alleged a heavy governmental and fiscal nexus betwixt the CM and Mr. Ponguleti, and demanded that the Minister either resign instantly oregon beryllium removed from the Cabinet, oregon the substance beryllium probed by either a House Committee oregon a sitting High Court judge.
He alleged that the Chief Minister had ‘effectively admitted wrongdoing’ by Raghava Constructions. When the BRS had sought a House Committee to guarantee a just and transparent probe, the authorities denied a structured treatment successful the Assembly and announced a CB-CID enquiry connected its ain terms, helium claimed.
Mr. Harish Rao argued that a CB-CID enquiry cannot beryllium impartial if the allegations interest a sitting minister. “How tin a just probe hap portion the Minister remains successful office?” helium asked, contending that the enquiry was designed to support Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy alternatively than uncover facts.
