Harish, KCR Must Pay For KLIS Botch Up: Revanth
Revanth questions secrecy on Harish’s Delhi visit
Hyderabad: Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Monday said the BRS was running scared that its two top leaders, former chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao and former minister T Harish Rao, will face action for their roles and actions that ultimately ended in serious damage to the Kaleshwaram barrages, and financial mismanagement of the project.
“This is the reason why Harish Rao secretly rushed to Delhi today. They expected action from the government to bring the Kaleshwaram culprits to book and Harish rushed to Delhi to fall at the feet of BJP leaders to save him and KCR. If his visit was to consult lawyers as claimed by the BRS, then where was the need for the secrecy over the visit,” Revanth Reddy asked.
He was referring to Harish Rao’s visit to Delhi early in the day, reportedly to discuss legal issues arising out of the KLIS case in the High Court, in the process skipping a public meeting of Chandrashekar Rao in Jagtial district.
Addressing a press meet at Medigadda after inspecting ongoing tests at the barrage, Revanth Reddy demanded that Harish Rao reveal who he was meeting with in Delhi. “If it is about meeting lawyers over the case he filed in the High Court challenging the Justice P.C. Ghose commission report, as is being claimed by his party, then it does not make sense as all the arguments in the case are over and the court reserved its judgment till April 22,” he said.
“If Harish does not reveal the details, then I am willing to order a probe – provided Harish agrees - on who he met in Delhi, which RSS leaders he met to influence the Central government to keep him and KCR out of trouble fine. Whose feet is Harish falling on to save him,” Revanth Reddy asked.
On the BRS’ allegations that he planned his Medigadda visit on Monday to overshadow Chandrashekar Rao’s public meeting, Revanth Reddy said “today’s Medigadda visit was planned a month ago as it involved planning to ensure all various experts from different agencies to the site at the same time.”
He said the BRS realised that their wrongdoings would be exposed once he checked the work going on at Medigadda and hastily scheduled a meeting at Jagtial, ostensibly to admit T. Jeevan Reddy into the party. “If the government wanted to create hurdles or intended to make things difficult for BRS, why would all the permissions for their public meeting be granted,” Revanth Reddy asked.
Meanwhile, the BRS explained that there was no secret behind Harish Rao’s Delhi visit, but some in the party admitted that the Delhi trip should have been announced in advance as it was pre-planned.
Party leaders said there are some apprehensions within the BRS leadership that in the event of the High Court’s verdict coming in a manner which does not dismiss the Justice Ghose commission report, then Harish Rao and Chandrashekar Rao could face ‘some immediate action’ from the government.
The meetings with lawyers in Delhi were said to be to figure out what they could do in such an event, party sources said. The meetings were also meant to explore the BRS’ push to have the 10 MLAs who won on its tickets but are no longer aligned with it but have been given a clean chit as not defected by the Speaker, be disqualified from the Assembly, the party leaders said.
