BJP wants to keep Opposition leaders in jail to win polls: BRS

BRS has alleged that the conspiracy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP is to ensure that no other party except it is allowed to exist. That is the reason why the ruling party at the Centre has been misusing the Central investigating agencies against opponent parties.

As the Modi government did not do anything for Telangana for the last 10 years, it is scared that BJP might face a backlash in the Lok Sabha polls if the issue became a poll issue, and therefore, it had brought out the ED cases to divert people’s attention, BRS leader Manne Krishank said on Thursday.

Speaking to the media, he said the arrests of BRS

BRS leader Manne Krishank.

MLC Kavitha and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal were part of BJP agenda to divert people’s attention from core issues during elections. ED had filed cases on daughter of Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan, and exCM of Jharkhand Hemant Soren too.

By keeping the ED, IT and CBI cases alive, the BJP was burying the debate on issues actually concerning people including on what the BJP government did for the last 10 years.

Stating that that it was the ED that was running the elections in the country and not the Election Commission, Mr. Krishank said the leaders who were facing even ED cases would get immunity from arrest if they joined BJP. Those who were not succumbing to the BJP pressure were being harassed with repeated summons, raids and more cases.

The sole objective behind all these cases is to force Opposition leaders make rounds of ED offices instead of participating in election campaigns. The plan is to keep as many Opposition leaders as possible in jail and win the elections. If BRS was nonexistent, why are BJP and Congress taking its leaders to contest elections, he sought to know.