‘BJP intimidating people who question it on social media’

Declaring that he will not be scared by the notices from Delhi Police on a case related to the ‘doctored’ video of Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president and Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy said the BJP government is trying to intimidate people who question it on social media.

“No one will be scared here. We will reply to the notices. In the coming elections, we will defeat Narendra Modi and Amit Shah in Telangana and Karnataka. Rahul Gandhi’s padayatra from Kashmir to Kanyakumari has stirred the emotions of people and they want to defeat the divisive forces,” the Chief Minister said.

Mr. Reddy made these comments while addressing a public meeting at Sedam in Karnataka on Monday evening.

Congress sources say they will respond to the notice after the Chief Minister returns from an election campaign in Karnataka

He was not in Hyderabad when the notices were sent.

Sources in the Chief Minister’s O¤ce (CMO) said that the Chief Minister was in Karnataka in an election campaign and they would not be able to comment on whether he would appear for investigation on May 1 as sought by the Delhi Police.

“We will respond once the Chief Minister returns,” the source said.

Congress Legal Cell incharge Ramachandra Reddy said that an Inspector from Delhi Police, Neeraj Chaudhary visited Gandhi Bhavan to serve notices on the party social media warriors Manne Satish, Shiva

Kumar and Asma Tasleem. “We sought 15 days time to respond to the notices and after studying the FIR in detail we will respond,” he said.

Meanwhile, several Congress leaders condemned the notices to the Chief Minister and said this intimidation by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government would not be tolerated by the Telangana people. They described the notices as an assault on the Telangana people.

Delegation meets CEO

A delegation of the Election Management Committee consisting of former MLCs Dileep Kumar and Ramulu Naik, former Minister Pushpaleela and senior leaders M. Vinod Reddy, Kathi Venkataswamy and Divyavani met Chief Electoral O¤cer Vikas Raj and submitted a memorandum to him seeking free and fair elections in view of the notices served on the Chief Minister.