nTelangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Thursday played out a five-minute video footage before the media as “evidence” to back his party MLA’s charges of an alleged attempt by the BJP to poach four TRS legislators.
Claiming that he has more than an hour of footage of hidden cameras, he said the entire evidence has been sent to the Chief Justice of India for ordering a detailed investigation into the involvement of bigwigs in the covert operation to buy the TRS MLAs and the conspiracy to topple his government.
He launched a direct attack on the BJP as well as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said that “Delhi brokers,” tried to poach four of his party MLAs in October this year. He said the videos were evidence that the meeting at the farmhouse was a poaching operation as the brokers mentioned Union Home Minister Amit Shah "20 times", PM Modi "thrice" and the change in government in Karnataka.
The evidence gathered in the case has already been submitted before the Telangana High Court and it will also be presented to all the other High Courts in the country besides the Chief Ministers of other states, he said.
The Cyberabad Police and Anti-Corruption Bureau have been probing the alleged attempt to offer bribe the MLAs to make them join the BJP, the CM said adding the Centre is conspiring to topple the TRS government.
A row erupted in Telangana last week, after the four TRS MLAs Rega Kantha Rao, Guvvala Balaraju, Beeram Harshvardhan Reddy and Pilot Rohit Reddy said that the BJP tried to lure them to switch loyalties.
KCR attacked Modi and Home minister Amit Shah alleging that the saffron party was trying to pull down the TRS government by luring its MLAs with offers of money and posts. The BJP denied the allegations and called it a drama scripted, directed and produced by KCR.
The Cyberabad police last week conducted raids at a farmhouse in Ranga Reddy district of Telangana, on the outskirts of Hyderabad, and detained three people for allegedly attempting to poach MLAs of the TRS with the promise of huge amounts of money.
Following a complaint of Rohith Reddy, an FIR was registered at the Moinabad Police Station. In the FIR, Reddy alleged that Ramachandra Bharati who came to Hyderabad from Delhi and Nanda Kumar of Hyderabad, both belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party had met him and offered him Rs 100 crore to join the BJP.
According to the FIR, Reddy also alleged that they were threatened that criminal cases will be foisted against him and raids by the Enforcement Directorate and the Central Bureau of Investigation if they did not join the BJP.