Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao has released a video footage in support of the claims of his MLAs being traded by the BJP in an attempt to topple his government. Efforts are also being made to topple opposition governments in Delhi, Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh and the “conspirators” have been successful in the last eight cases since 2015, he said.
New Delhi: Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao released a video footage in support of his claims of his MLAs being horse-traded by the BJP in an attempt to topple his government at a press conference soon after the polls for the Munugode by-election concluded on Thursday.
The chief minister said similar efforts are being made to topple opposition governments in Delhi, Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh and the “conspirators” have been successful in the last eight cases since 2015.
According to the Indian Express report, Rao said that evidence, including three hours long footage of the farmhouse, has been presented by the prosecution before the Telangana High Court.
He said that this evidence is being sent to the Chief Justice of India, Chief Justices of all High Courts, Chief Ministers, Director Generals of Police of all states, CBI, ED, Presidents of all political parties and media houses to understand the gravity of the matter. .
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Apart from the three accused arrested – Ramchandra Bharati alias Satish Sharma, a priest from Faridabad in Haryana, Sant D. Simhayaji, a priest of Srimanatha Raja Peetham in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, and Nand Kumar from Hyderabad – Chief Minister Rao also named Kerala’s Tushar as the chief. named as the conspirator.
He said that Tushar had contested on NDA ticket against Rahul Gandhi in Wayanad in the 2019 elections and was himself introduced by Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
“These people are offering Rs 100 crore, immunity from ED and IT and Y category security. He mentioned Modi’s name twice and Shah’s name at least 20 times. They say either ‘dock’ or ‘ed’. Who are these people and how they have so much money, it should be investigated and PM Modi should lead.
According to him, the accused even told the four TRS MLAs that as long as EVMs are being used, there is a BJP government at the Centre.
Rao also shared copies of the Aadhar cards, PAN cards etc of the accused and said that they used different names to commit financial fraud to buy MLAs.
Stating that such acts are a threat to the world’s largest democracy, Rao showed a video of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s public meeting during last year’s West Bengal elections, in which he said that 40 MLAs of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee were his contacts. were in.
Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao said, ‘I am your political ally, Modiji and I am holding a constitutional post. Respect the mandate and stop toppling democratically elected governments.
He further said, ‘You (Modi) have won twice. Do well and earn a good name, so that you will be remembered. The accused are taking your name and Amit Shah’s name. Don’t fall so low. Please take action against the culprits and rise above politics to save democracy.
He said, ‘Whenever there has been a crisis, the judiciary of the country has come to the rescue of democracy. These accused have named other senior leaders like PM Modi, Amit Shah, BJP President JP Nadda and BL Santosh to gain the confidence of the MLAs.
Rao said, ‘I appeal to everyone not to think of this as a single case. It is running since 2015. The 24-member gang is working to topple the non-BJP governments. They proudly say that they have already brought down 8 governments and now it is the turn of Telangana, Delhi, Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh.
Rao said that he would launch a movement similar to the ‘JP movement’ to protect India’s democracy.
“It is unfortunate that the BJP has destroyed the country in eight years. Today democracy is at stake. Such a situation is undesirable when there are pressing issues like unemployment, inflation and economic crisis. I urge the judiciary to save the country with folded hands.
On October 30 too, Telangana Chief Minister Rao alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party was trying to buy out 20-30 MLAs of the ruling TRS in the state and bring down their government.
It is to be known that after arresting the three accused for allegedly trying to ‘horse-trade’ four MLAs of the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) in Telangana, on October 30, a local court in Hyderabad sentenced them to 14 days. was sent to judicial custody.
He had claimed that Delhi’s ‘brokers’ had offered Rs 100 crore each to the sitting MLAs.
Among the TRS MLAs who were allegedly offered money to join the BJP, G. Balaraju (Achampet assembly constituency), B. Harshvardhan Reddy (Kollapur), Rega Kantarao (Pinapaka) and Pilot Rohit Reddy (Tandur). These MLAs were offered money, contracts and positions.
Separately, a day before the arrest, an purported audio clip of a telephonic conversation between prime accused Ramachandra Bharti and Pilot Rohit Reddy, a TRS MLA, had surfaced.
The purported audio clip indicated that the move to entice TRS MLAs to join the BJP had received approval from Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, referred to as ‘number one’ and ‘number two’ respectively in the clip. was referenced.
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