E Jamuna said BRS MLC Kaushik Reddy offered the "supari", but he said instead that Eatala tried to kill him in 2018.
Published Jun 27, 2023 | 9:09 PM ⚊ Updated Jun 28, 2023 | 7:23 AM
File photo of Eatala Rajender. (EatalaRajenderOfficial/Facebook)
A supari (contract) of ₹20 crore has been offered to kill Telangana BJP MLA Eatala Rajender, his wife Jamuna alleged in Hyderabad on Tuesday, 27 June.
“We came to know that BRS MLC Paadi Kaushik Reddy is conspiring to kill my husband and a supari of ₹20 crore has been offered,” Jamuna told reporters.
Rajender came to the city after meeting senior BJP leaders in New Delhi to sort out internal differences with other leaders. Former MLA Komatireddy Rajagopal Reddy accompanied Rajender.
“We are not scared of anyone. We suspect that Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao is behind Kaushik Reddy,” she said, adding that the people would teach a fitting lesson to the chief minister with their votes.
Jamuna said the Telangana chief minister was using Kaushik Reddy against the people of Huzurabad who had extended full support to Rajender during the Assembly by-elections and helped him win.
Kaushik Reddy has been committing several atrocities in the Huzurabad Assembly constituency with the support of the chief minister, she alleged.
“The chief minister will be responsible if any harm comes to anyone in our family,” she said.
Replying to a question on whether Rajender was contemplating shifting his political loyalty because of differences, Jamuna said he was happy in the BJP and had also made it clear that he would not switch to any other party.
She ruled out the possibility of her entering politics. It was Jamuna who supported Rajender on all fronts when the TRS, which is now BRS, suspended him on charges of encroaching government lands in the erstwhile Medak district.
During the Huzurabad by-election, she campaigned door to door, requesting votes for her husband.
Both Rajender and Rajagopal Reddy skipped the “Inti Intiki BJP” programme organised by the Telangana BJP unit to highlight the development and welfare schemes introduced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the past nine years.
This prompted the BJP central leadership to hold discussions with them on Saturday and Sunday and pacify them.
At a separate news conference at his residence in Shamirpet, Rajender said he had been facing threats for the past six months.
“I am not afraid of such threats. I was not scared of the slain gangster Nayeemudin alias Nayeem,” he said.
Referring to rumours that he was planning to leave the BJP, he clarified that changing a party was not as easy as changing clothes.
“I did not come out of the BRS. It was the BRS that shunted me out,” he said, adding that Chandrashekar Rao’s family would have felt bad for him for forcing him to leave the party.
On his recent visit to New Delhi, Rajender said national politics was not new to him. “I did not seek an appointment. The high command asked me to meet in New Delhi,” he said.
He said that the BJP would defeat the BRS in the next Assembly elections in Telangana.
Rajender also said the verdict of the people in Telangana in the upcoming Assembly elections would be different and even psephologists would not be able to predict the outcome.
Later on Tuesday, Kaushik Reddy said the allegations levelled against him were nothing but a joke.
Stating that both Rajender and his wife spoke lies against him, he asked Rajender whether he was ready for a debate in Huzurabad to prove the allegations.
Talking to reporters in Hyderabad, he said it was Rajender who was indulging in political murders. “Rajender attempted to kill me in 2018,” he said.
He demanded that Rajender’s wife Jamuna tender an unconditional apology to the Mudiraj community members for humiliating them.
He sought to know how Rajender, who did not have a proper permanent house earlier, constructed a swanky residence over five acres of land.
Rajender was also facing criticism for encroaching on land belonging to Dalits and backward classes.
Reddy said he would not sleep till he defeated Rajender in the next Assembly elections.
Rajender was becoming confused as he was afraid of losing the next elections, and that was why he was consulting various parties, said the BRS leader.
