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Nagpur ACB files 2 more FIRs against Udayagiri MLA’s firm
Udayagiri MLA Bollineni Venkata Ramarao from ruling Telugu Desam Party facing heat from internal politics in Maharashtra where National Congress Party-Congress organised Halla Bol agitation in the region exposing corruption during the BJP regime in the state which resulted in filing of four FIRs a couple days ago by ACB sleuths in which legislator’s company was named once again.
Nellore: Udayagiri MLA Bollineni Venkata Ramarao from ruling Telugu Desam Party facing heat from internal politics in Maharashtra where National Congress Party-Congress organised Halla Bol agitation in the region exposing corruption during the BJP regime in the state which resulted in filing of four FIRs a couple days ago by ACB sleuths in which legislator’s company was named once again.
The ruling BJP government has planned to counter efforts of the opposition, and directed the ACB officials to speed up additional FIRs regarding the scam surfaced in Vidarbha Irrigation Development Corporation (VIDC) and name of the contractor-turned-legislator came to fore once again.
Nagpur-based NGO, Jan Manch in 2016 (No 12/2016) filed a PIL in Mumbai High Court of Nagpur bench stating how the cost of 38 irrigation projects undertaken between 1999 and 2010 escalated by Rs 20,050 crore which in fact was from Rs 6,672 crore to Rs 26,722.33 crore. Thirty out of 38 projects were granted speedy approvals in just four days within seven months in 2009, the PIL said.
The ACB on December 12 this year, filed 4 FIRs at Sadar police station regarding Gosikhurd National Irrigation Project in Vidarbha region. Decisions on 40 tenders granted for Gosikhurd dam project have been under ACB scanner for the last two years.
Even as the first FIR was related to Mokhabardi lift irrigation scheme of Gosikhurd dam and the second one relates to tenders granted for work on 0-10th km of the dam's left bank canal.
In this, it has been alleged that the joint venture was allotted a tender even though it was not registered with the registrar of partnership firms and the contractors Srinivas Reddy and Balrami Reddy of Srinivasa Constructions owned by the legislator. The duo has also been booked in the third case, which is regarding a tender for Mokhabardi lift irrigation scheme.
