BRS remained silent when the Revanth Reddy government giving strategic leaks accusing the phone tapping was engineered under the direct supervision of the then Chief Minister and BRS Chief K Chandrasekhar Rao.
Everyday, it is feeding the media with confession statements of several SIB officers involved in alleged phone tapping accusing figures against KCR, T Harish Rao and other key persons in the previous government. On the otherhand, BJP leaders asking for a CBI probe and questioning the government, why not arrest KCR?
For the first time, the party breaking its silence strongly dismissed phone tapping accusations. Party senior leader and former minister S Niranjan Reddy refuting these allegations as baseless and legally unsound, warned the Congress government of legal action, if such leaks continue in an attempt to run a media trial.
He asserted that the phone tapping case is nonsense with no legal validity. He lamented that they are leaking news and deciding the masterminds and culprits, with no concrete evidence. He made it clear that such allegations without evidence, will not stand legal scrutiny.
Moreover, in a way supporting the phone tapping by his government, he said that it was part of the administrative system and can be done only with legal approvals. He recalled though the previous governments in erstwhile Andhra Pradesh also indulged in tapping phones of Telangana agitators including former Chief Minister Chandrashekhar Rao, the BRS ignored such silly issues.
The former minister ridiculed the Chief Minister’s call to put former Chief Minister Chandrashekhar Rao on a lie detector test over the Kaleshwaram project issue, terming it foolish. “Our current Chief Minister was caught red-handed attempting to purchase votes of elected representatives and overthrow the then government in Telangana. Will he agree to a lie detector test in the Vote for Note scandal?” he questioned.
Accusing Chief Minister Revanth Reddy of using leaks to divert attention from his administration’s failures, he reminded that the State government attempted to make an issue out of the Medigadda barrage and dubbed the Kaleshwaram project as a failure when the BRS questioned it over electoral promises.
“But the Congress government recently announced plans to release 7 TMC water from Mallanna Sagar to Osman Sagar and Himayat Sagar to ensure drinking water supply to Hyderabad. If the Kaleshwaram project is a failure, how will it be possible?” he asked.
