BRS sees political conspiracy behind arrest, inclusion as accused

Women leaders of the BRS have alleged that inclusion of MLC K. Kavitha as an accused in the Delhi liquor policy case was part of a political conspiracy against the party and her arrest has political motives, particularly to weaken the party’s morale ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.

Speaking to newspersons here on Tuesday, former Minister Satyavathi Rathod and former MLAs G. Sunitha Mahender Reddy and B. Haripriya Nayak questioned after sunset the last time. She said her personal details had also been outed. The 2023 petition

BRS women leaders speaking to newspersons in Hyderabad on Tuesday.

said the entire case was aimed at politically weakening strong regional leaders such as Arvind Kejriwal and K. Chandraseksaid she was implicated in the case on the basis of statements extracted out of certain persons using

har Rao. They stated that had Ms. Kavitha been involved in the case, the Enforcement Directorate would have arrested her coercion.

In September last year, the top court had agreed to examine ED’s power to when she attended the examination by the investigating agency as a witness.

The BRS leaders stated that making policies was the right of any elected government including that of Narendra Modi at the Centre and the AAP government in Delhi led by Mr. Kejriwal did the same. They sought to know whether new policies made by the Modi government were after accepting bribe to help somebody else.

They termed the liquor case as a Modi case and not ED case. summon Ms. Kavitha in light of a July 2022 judgment in the Vijay Madanlal Choudhary case.