Telangana state BJP has two groups, but ‘like KCR’ wins: Revanth Reddy

Hyderabad: TPCC working president and Congress MP A. Revanth Reddy on Saturday claimed that the Telangana state BJP was divided into two groups, one supportive of TRS president and Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao and the other that was critical of him. “The BJP has no place for anti-KCR leaders,” he said.

Mr Reddy said the TRS and the BJP were two sides of the same coin. Speaking to mediapersons on Saturday, he alleged that both parties had an internal understanding.

The Congress MP alleged that TS BJP president K. Laxman had claimed that the party would ask the Centre to order a CBI probe into the corruption in power purchase agreements. “When will the CBI inquiry be ordered,” he asked.

Continuing his attack on Mr Chandrasekhar Rao and TS Genco and Transco chairman and managing director D. Prabhakar Rao, Mr Revanth Reddy said that usually IAS officers are appointed to head power utilities. When they refuse to sign on irregular agreements, the government removes them and appoints retired officers.

“As part of this practice, D. Prabhakar Rao, G. Raghuma Reddy and Gopal Rao were appointed,” Mr Revanth Reddy said. He alleged that these officers were cooperating with Mr Chandrasekhar Rao to loot public money.

He said that the power utilities in the state had borrowed Rs 74,000 crore since 2014, but Mr Prabhakar Rao had put the figure at Rs 35,000 crore “which is an utter lie”.

He said that the government has taken action on officials for speaking against Mr Chandrasekhar Rao and his son and TRS working president K.T. Rama Rao.
“What action will be taken against power employees who spoke about me,” Mr Revanth Reddy asked, referring to comments made by power union employees during his war of words with Mr Prabhakar Rao.

Mr Revanth Reddy said that the government had banned TS Power Employees Joint Action Committee (JAC) leader Raghu not to speak on power issues. “Why are the power employees not conducting dharnas against this,” he asked.

He said that Mr Prabhakar Rao has no eligibility to appoint him as chairman and managing director of power utilities and alleged several IAS officers who are not interested to work with him had sought transfers.