The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader called the allegations against him a “political vendetta” by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and said time will prove his sincerity.
Date of publication – 14:45, Wednesday – 21 December 22
Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao’s daughter K. Kavitha on Wednesday said the allegations against her in the Delhi liquor scam case are “false and bogus”.
The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader called the allegations against him a “political vendetta” by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and said time will prove his sincerity.
Kavitha, Telangana Legislative Council member, Congress MP and Telangana in-charge Manickam Tagore and BJP chief Komatireddy Rajagopal Reddy in response to tweets.
“The allegations leveled against me are completely false and false. Only time will prove my sincerity. It’s BJP’s political vendetta as they fear what BRS Party Chief CM KCR ji has shown about his anti-farmer and pro-capitalist policies,” Kavitha tweeted.
Manickam was reacting to Tagore’s tweet that he has a lot of explaining to do.
The Congress leader was reacting to media reports that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the chargesheet in the case alleged that Kavitha had paid a bribe of Rs 100 crore to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
According to the ED, the South Group comprising Kavitha, Aurobindo Pharma director Sharat Chandra Reddy and YSR Congress MP Magunta Srinivasula Reddy paid Rs 100 crore kickbacks to Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP to gain control of the liquor business in the national capital.
The South Group is said to have incorporated several wholesale and retail sites. The ED alleged that Kavitha holds a 65 percent stake along with the Magunta family, through attorney Arun Pillai, in Indospirit, which earned at least Rs 195 crore by selling 14 million retail bottles.
Kavitha also reacted to another tweet by BJP’s Rajagopal Reddy. “Liquor Queen’s name was mentioned 28 times in the chargesheet,” the BJP leader tweeted, referring to a newspaper report.
The BRS leader advised him not to rush. “Not 28 times, even if my name is mentioned 28,000 times, a lie does not become the truth,” Kavitha tweeted with the hashtag, truth will prevail.
On December 11, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) interrogated Kavitha for more than seven hours.
The central agency recorded his statement under Section 160 of the Criminal Procedure Code.
On November 30, Kavitha’s name appeared in the arrest report filed by the ED in a Delhi court against businessman Amit Arora in the Delhi liquor policy scam.
According to the arrest report, businessman Vijay Nair, who has already been arrested in the case, received kickbacks worth Rs 100 crore on behalf of AAP leaders from the South Group.