The chief minister said once BRS's Rajya Sabha members merge with the BJP, KCR's daughter and MLC K Kavitha would get bail in the Delhi excise policy case.
Published Aug 17, 2024 | 8:00 AM ⚊ Updated Aug 17, 2024 | 8:00 AM
Speaking to reporters in Delhi, Revanth Reddy said KT Rama Rao will be drafted into the Modi Cabinet after the merger. (Revanth Reddy/X)
Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy has predicted that the BRS would soon merge with the BJP, and its chief K Chandrashekar Rao would be made the governor of a state.
In an informal interaction with journalists in Delhi on Friday, 16 August, Revanth Reddy also said that BRS working president KT Rama Rao would be inducted in the Modi Cabinet and former minister T Harish Rao would become the leader of the Opposition in the Telangana Assembly.
Further, the chief minister said once BRS’s Rajya Sabha members merge with the BJP, Chandrashekar Rao’s daughter and MLC K Kavitha would get bail in the Delhi excise policy case.
Kavitha has been in jail ever since the Enforcement Directorate arrested the MLC from her Hyderabad residence on 15 March. She has been accused of having links with a “South Group” that influenced the excise policy for gain.
The chief minister made the seemingly outlandish merger theory apparently to counter the BRS’s bid to take the sheen out of his government waiving up to ₹2 loans of farmers in the state.
Revanth Reddy said the BRS would have to “surrender” its four Rajya Sabha MPs to the BJP to win Kavitha’s bail. The chief minister further said that KCR — as Chandrashekar is popularly known — did not provide any party positions to his family members since he has been contemplating merging the BRS with the BJP.
The chief minister countered the BRS allegation that his brothers were visiting foreign countries at the government’s expense. Saying that his seven brothers could not sit back at home since he was in power, Revanth Reddy said they could visit any country by spending their money.
Replying to the allegation that the beneficiaries’ number has come down under the crop loan waiver scheme, he said, unlike KCR, his government waived the loans of genuine farmers who satisfied the eligibility criteria.
He dismissed as ridiculous the BRS saying that the Congress nominated an outsider to the Rajya Sabha from the state.
The Congress has fielded Abhishek Manu Singhvi for the bypolls to the Rajya Sabha. The bypoll was necessitated by the resignation of BRS member K Keshava Rao, who joined the Congress.
The chief minister said that there was nothing wrong in nominating someone from outside the state and recalled how BRS leaders used to visit Delhi even to treat toothache. He wondered whether there were no competent doctors in Telangana.
The chief minister said the filling of the PCC president’s post was not within his power and that the party’s high command was seized of the issue. He said had brought to the party leadership his choice of the candidate for the PCC post. However, he did not identify the leader.
Revanth Reddy would be consulting the party high command on the expansion of the Cabinet which has been hanging fire for quite some time and making an appointment to the TPCC post.
(Edited by Majnu Babu)
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