Congress trying hard to divert all leaders from election campaign: BRS spokesperson

Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], January 30 (ANI): The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has strongly criticised the Special Investigation Team (SIT) notice served to former Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao in connection with the alleged phone-tapping case. BRS spokesperson Manne Krishank accused the Congress government of attempting to divert the party's attention from the ongoing municipal election campaign.
The BRS leader further remarked that, after Harish Rao, a senior BRS leader, exposed the alleged coal scam, Rao was immediately served with a notice to appear for investigation.
Following this, a delegation of BRS MLAs, MLCs, and Rajya Sabha MPs met the Governor of Telangana, demanding a thorough probe into the coal scam, which allegedly involves top leaders of the Congress government.
Notably, the SIT served the notice to KCR on the very next day.
"While the BRS leaders are busy with the last day of nominations of the municipal elections, the Congress government is trying hard to divert all the BRS leaders from the municipal election campaign. When Harish Rao garu exposed the coal scam. Immediately, he was served with a notice to appear for an investigation. A delegation of MLAs, MLCs, and Rajya Sabha MPs met the Governor of Telangana and demanded a thorough probe into the coal scam, which involves the Congress government's top leaders. Immediately, the next day, the SIT lands up to give notice to KCR," Krishank told ANI.
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the phone tapping case is set to question Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) president K. Chandrashekhar Rao at his Erravalli farmhouse in Siddipet district on Friday.
According to sources, the SIT has agreed to KCR's request, and the questioning will take place at his farmhouse.
This comes after several BRS leaders, including KCR's son K.T. Rama Rao and nephew T. Harish Rao, were questioned by the SIT in connection with the case.
Earlier, BRS chief and former Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao requested that the Special Investigation Team (SIT) reschedule his questioning in the phone-tapping case, citing a busy schedule due to municipal elections.
In a letter to the ACP, Jubilee Hills Division, Hyderabad, KCR stated that he is preoccupied with issuing authorisations for the elections and requested an alternative date for his examination, according to a party official.
"At present nomination to the elections to the municipalities and municipal corporations are underway. Tomorrow is the last date for filing nomination to the elections to the 116 municipalities and seven municipal corporations. In view of the same, I am pre-occupied with issuing authorisation to a number of persons as the elections are being held on party basis," KCR said in a letter addressed to ACP P Venkatagiri.
"In view of the above, you may fix any other date of your convenience for my examination under Section 160 of the Cr PC," he added.
Earlier, former minister Harish Rao, BRS Working President KT Rama Rao (KTR), and former BRS MP Santosh Rao were questioned by the SIT at its Jubilee Hills office in connection with the same case. (ANI)