HYDERABAD: BJP general secretary and Telangana state in-charge Tarun Chugh on Saturday said that the BRS has “opened a theatre” in the national capital to deflect attention from party MLC K. Kavitha’s alleged involvement in the liquor scam in connivance with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
The had ED summoned Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao’s daughter for questioning following due process and after obtaining conclusive evidence, he claimed.
Arun Ramachandra Pillai, one of the accused in the scam, has revealed during his interrogation that he was a benami of Kavitha and had acted at her behest, he said. It may be recalled that Pillai has since said the statement was coerced by the ED.
The CBI and ED have a detailed narration of the role of Kavitha, how the South Group played a key role in the scam and how `100 crore were ‘gifted’ to AAP through the hawala route, he said.
Instead of answering questions, the BRS has chosen to take recourse to intimidation by calling statutory agencies names, Chugh said.
The drama that Kavitha enacted in New Delhi on the women's reservation bill ended in a farce, he claimed. He alleged that a party that was inherently misogynist was talking about women’s reservations. The first BRS Cabinet didn't have a woman minister, he said, and there were two in its second stint. “If Kavitha is genuine in her demand, she must ensure 33 per cent reservation in her father’s Cabinet,” he said.
Rao’s on the episode was telling, he said. Neither Kavitha nor her family had answered on whether she was part of the South Group or not. Did she take part in the deliberations to decide the liquor policy, Whether or not they had meetings in Hyderabad and New Delhi, and if her share in the scheme was fixed at 33 per cent, the BJP leader asked.
It is ironic that Opposition parties were blaming the Union government and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“I wish to make it unequivocal that the Modi government will not spare anyone involved in corruption as it is bound by a zero-tolerance policy,” Chugh said.
