Congress leader Bathini Srinivas Rao lodged a complaint in Hanmakonda against former minister and Bharat Rashtra Samithi working president Kalvakuntla Taraka Rama Rao (KTR) for leveling accusations against Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy.
Expressing disapproval of the accusations, the Congress leader stated that KTR had made untrue and deceptive claims against Chief Minister Reddy, alleging that he had amassed Rs 2,500 crores from contractors and builders and transferred the sum to Delhi.
“Misleading and baseless allegations are being made by KTR and disrupting peace and security,” Bathini Srinivas Rao said in his complaint.
According to the ACP of Hanumakonda, “A zero FIR has been filed against KTR on the complaint of Congress leader Bathini Srinivas Rao for making allegations against Telangana CM Revanth Reddy.”
Earlier on Friday, CM Reddy reacted to KTR’s statement suggesting that ‘phones may have been tapped’. Reddy issued a caution, stating that individuals implicated in the purported phone tapping during the previous Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) administration ‘will be sent to jail.’
“Earlier, the government scared the people who voted for them by putting cases on them and phone tapping. ‘KTR is saying that they tapped a few calls, so what?’ Can anyone speak like that? If you tap phones, you will go to Cherlapalli jail. The officers who listened to them are in jail. We already said that they are evil doers, thieves, and if you listen to them, you will go to jail. KTR is speaking like an unbridled bull. They will pay for it, but the case is under investigation,” Chief Minister Revanth Reddy said.
The phone-tapping case centers on accusations of extensive phone tapping of political figures, including Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, during the previous Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) administration under the leadership of K Chandrashekar Rao.