The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has demanded a full-fledged judicial inquiry by a judge into a series of alleged corruption cases involving both the previous BRS government and the current Congress regime in Telangana. The party is seeking a probe into the Kaleshwaram irrigation project, Dharani land transactions, phone tapping, sheep distribution, HMDA land deals and several other issues.
“People deserve to know which contractors have benefited and how much commission has been generated through decisions taken by these governments. Congress and BRS are two sides of the same coin,” party president N. Ramchander Rao said at a press conference at the party’s state office on Thursday.
Mr Rao accused the Revanth Reddy-led Congress government of “totally failing” to investigate corruption during the BRS tenure, limiting itself to issuing “publicity” notices instead of arresting “key BRS leaders involved in wrongdoing”. He claimed that only a few officials were targeted while the main culprits were protected.
Recalling Revanth Reddy’s earlier statement, Mr. Rao said the Chief Minister, when he was in opposition, had promised to send BRS leaders to jail for their alleged irregularities. “However, after coming to power, he was unable to act and instead relied on half-hearted investigations conducted through so-called special investigation teams,” he said. Despite two years of Congress rule, he added, no major inquiry had been completed and the same contractors continued to wield influence, including the Naini coal block.
He further charged that while Congress and BRS may be different political entities, their “exploitative methods remain the same” and appealed to voters to “teach both parties a lesson” in the upcoming municipal elections by supporting the BJP.
Mr. Rao alleged that both the Congress and the BRS staged “deliberate dramas” to undermine the BJP’s growing public support, referring to the recent gram panchayat elections where the BJP won nearly 1,000 sarpanch posts, 10,000 ward seats and 1,200 deputy sarpanch seats.
In a separate statement, BJP spokesperson NV Subash accused both parties of making “a mockery of the anti-defection law” and questioned how a BRS MLA could join the Congress and contest the Lok Sabha elections without resigning. He urged the defecting MLAs to resign and seek fresh mandate.
Published – 29 Jan 2026 21:04 IST
