Delhi liquor policy case is Modi’s scheme, says KCR

BRS president K. Chandrasekhar Rao has termed the Delhi liquor policy case a “political scheme of Prime Minister Narendra Modi” to target a few of his political opponents in States where BJP has failed to make inroads for the last 10 years.

Participating in a television live show on Tuesday, he said that his daughter K. Kavitha was in no way connected to the case, and she would come out like a ‘clean pearl’. Stating that the liquor scam was bogus, he said it was a “cock and bull story created by the Modi Government”.

He also said that every State Government has the constitutional authority to bring its own policies and the Delhi Government too, did the same. However, unable to win the Assembly elections in Delhi last three times, Mr. Modi had fabricated

K. Chandrasekhar Rao

the case with the help of the Lieutenant Governor there. “It was height of autocracy that a CM (Arvind Kejriwal) was being denied bail, as if he would run away from the country if given bail. He too would come out clean,” he said.

‘Not an engineer’

On Kaleshwaram project, he said, “KCR did not design Kaleshwaram project. I am not an engineering graduate, I am a strategist who wants to protect the interests of Telangana. Every structure of the project is safe but unfortunately a few piers of Medigadda

Barrage have sunk”.

The work agency, L&T, had o ered to rehabilitate the damaged portion of the structure but the Congress Government was not allowing the work, just to target BRS and KCR. .

On phone-tapping, he said that the police and home departments would intercept some phone calls which they deem —t under the Indian Telegraph Act and the information collected would be utilised for di erent purposes.

Bus yatra

Meanwhile, KCR is embarking on a 17-day bus yatra in Telangana from April 24 to May 10, as part of his campaign for the Lok Sabha elections with the party caught in a three-cornered contest and the toughest test of its survival till date.

On Tuesday, a puja was performed to the Telangana Pragathi Ratham, the mini-bus in which KCR would be traversing.