BJP to seek Governor’s intervention in ‘phone-tapping’

Rajya Sabha member and senior BJP leader K. Laxman said that his party would approach Governor C.P. Radhakrishnan seeking his intervention in the phonetapping case under the BRS government, in view of more complainants coming forward and the Congress government not taking any action against the “real persons” responsible for it.

He has once again reiterated the BJP’s call for a fullfledged probe by the CBI into the illegal ‘phonetap

K. Laxman

ping’ and said it was necessary to identify the perpetrators behind the intrusion into personal lives of citizens and encroachment upon their fundamental rights.

Addressing a press conference at the party’s State office in Hyderabad on

Wednesday, Mr. Laxman claimed that tapping phones of individuals and making use of the unethical surveillance under the leadership of a retired senior police official to extort money from business persons and blackmailing of political opponents is a matter of “national security”.

The MP, also the party’s national OBC morcha president, pointed out that the confession statement of the police officials arrested for the illegal activity had also admitted to have had targeted political opponents during the last two

Assembly elections as well as during the by polls, possible influencing election results too.

“The fact that police vehicles were used to transport money for the elections indicates the extent to which the BRS Government has gone the dictatorial way. The votes for notes case in which Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy was arrested should also become part of the probe. Only the CBI can conduct an impartial probe to get to the bottom of this,” he maintained.

Mr. Laxman also criticised the Congress Government for not taking investigations into the ‘scams’ of the BRS government.

Eatala alleges snooping

In a related development, former Minister and Malkajgiri BJP candidate Eatala Rajender told an election campaign meeting that he and his family too, were under the ‘phone surveillance’ under KCR government during the Huzurabad bypoll, but people of the constituency stood by him. He criticised the CM, who criticised defection when in Opposition, for admitting elected BRS leaders into his party.