After the Telangana High Court on Tuesday, January 7, 2025, dismissed the criminal petition filed by Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president KT Rama Rao, senior party leader T. Harish Rao addressed to the media at the former’s residence, Nandi Nagar, in Hyderabad. | Photo credit: NAGARA GOPAL
HYDERABAD
Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader T. Harish Rao has said that the party’s legal cell would take a decision on the transfer of the Supreme Court after the Telangana High Court dismissed the petition filed by the sitting president and former party minister KT Rama. Rao seeks to quash the case registered against him and others by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), in connection with the Formula-E race.
Speaking to reporters at Mr. Rama Rao’s Nandi Nagar residence in Hyderabad after the High Court decision on Tuesday (January 7, 2025), Mr. Harish Rao said that the legal cell would take a decision after reviewing the copy of the sentence. He reiterated that Mr. Rama Rao was not against the investigation of the case and that he went to the ACB office on Monday (January 6, 2025) and waited outside the office for 45 minutes. KTR would return there on January 9 after the ACB’s notice.
Harish Rao said the High Court ruling called for continued investigation into the case based on the government’s argument that there had been corruption in the Formula E race and not in relation to the punishment. Irrespective of the spate of cases that have been filed against the BRS leaders, they will not stop raising their voice against the government and the unfulfilled election promises of the Congress Party.
Harish Rao said there was no comparison between the case filed against A. Revanth Reddy after he was caught with cash in the cash-for-vote case when he was with the Telugu Desam Party and the one filed by the Congress government against Mr. Rama Rao. While Reddy was sent to jail after being caught on camera, Rama Rao had brought Formula E racing to Hyderabad just to improve the city’s brand image, he said.
Mr. Harish Rao wanted to know where was the extent of corruption in the case when there was no case of change of hands.
Alleging that Chief Minister Revanth Reddy had got the ACB to register the case against Mr. Rama Rao as part of his policy of diversion of attention, he said it was done because Mr. Rama Rao was at the forefront of highlighting Mr. Reddy’s failures as Chief. Minister and his inability to fulfill the promises made before the elections. The government was now facing opposition from the people, specifically the farming community, for not fulfilling the promise to improve Rythu Bharosa and for not paying investment support for the Kharif season.
Published – January 7, 2025 05:27 pm IST
