HYDERABAD
Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president KT Rama Rao alleged that Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy decided to harass senior party leader T. Harish Rao in a revenge bid after the latter exposed a coal scam involving the CM’s brother-in-law.
Mr. Revanth Reddy was caught with bags of money in the vote money scam in the past and tried to use it on others, he said at a press conference here on Tuesday. Despite such harassment in the name of the SIT probe into the phone tapping case, BRS leaders will continue to challenge the Congress for not keeping the survey promises.
Several members of Mr. Reddy’s cabinet have been implicated in one scam or the other and in this fresh coal scam, some of the connected ministers have kept quiet, perhaps because of “pressure” from the Chief Minister.
On the wiretapping case, he said that no police officer investigating the case has spoken a word yet and was trying to see how long Mr. Revanth Reddy would survive just by leaking information. It went on like a soap opera without any evidence or official information. The Supreme Court once quashed the case filed against Mr. Harish Rao in the same phone tapping episode.
Mr. Rama Rao noted that the Revanth Reddy government had resorted to distraction tactics every time the BRS exposed the fraud of the Congress government. The Chief Minister’s family has so far tried to dominate nine selection processes at Singareni. For the first time, bids were witnessed in excess of the estimated value, and in the past they have been submitted at 20-25% less.
Every bidder who came for the site visit, a condition after the Congress took over in December 2023 as a ploy to make easy money, was threatened by the Chief Minister’s brother-in-law S. Srujan Reddy and most of the eligible bidders were not issued site visit certificates.
He also questioned Union Coal Minister G Kishan Reddy’s silence on the matter and sought to find out whether the BJP was also a party to the scam. Mr. Rama Rao demanded an inquiry into the fraud and annulment of the nine singaren and one naini contracts before the sitting judge of the Supreme Court.
Published – 21 Jan 2026 05:14 IST
