Phone tapping case: BJP wants CBI probe
Hyderabad: The state BJP, which is confident of getting double digit seats in the Lok Sabha elections, is now training its guns on the telephone tapping case.
State BJP leaders have decided not to allow the case to get diluted and plan to urge the Centre to order a CBI probe into the case. The BJP leaders expressed concern over the manner in which the state government had enthusiastically ordered a probe into many scams of the previous BRS government but had gone silent on the phone tapping case and they do not want a repeat of the same in this case as well.
To keep the issue alive, the state BJP organized a protest at Dharna Chowk on Friday. Addressing the party workers, BJP Parliamentary Board Member and Rajya Sabha MP Dr K Laxman, questioned as to why Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy was silent on the alleged role of the then ministers K T Rama Rao and T Harish Rao in the phone tapping case. He demanded that the state government question the masterminds behind the probe. So far, it had only been taking action against the officials who executed the ‘illegal task’ given to them by their political bosses, he said.
He said the Chief Minister and his family members were themselves victims of phone tapping and hence he should ensure that a detailed probe by the CBI was ordered.
Laxman said the previous KCR government had snooped on several persons in gross violation of the norms and without the permission of the Centre and had also acquired technologies for phone tapping from abroad illegally. This is a grave crime and the perpetrators should not go unpunished, he said.
Laxman said Revanth during poll campaign for the Assembly elections had vowed that his government would make the leaders cough up the wealth they had amassed in the last ten years whether it be from Kaleshwaram project, Dharni portal or other deals. But once in the seat of power, he seems to be going soft on all such issues giving rise to speculations that he was compromising to retain power, Laxman added.