However, the BRS soon released a hand-written letter from the arrested former MLA addressed to the court in which he said the remand report was cooked up by the police and denied that he had given any such confession.
A day after the attack on district officials including the collector in Vikarabad district of Telangana, police have taken into custody around 55 people while a BRS youth wing leader was on the run for allegedly instigating the “pre-planned attack”.
Criticising the Congress for taking a hypocritical stand over Adani Group BRS working president KT Rama Rao today alleged that the Rs 100 crore worth donation from industrialist Gautam Adani towards setting up a skill university in Telangana, was actually a pay-off ahead of the public hearing for the Ambuja Cement plant coming up at Nalgonda.
Rao posted a photograph of Gautam Adani’s recent meeting with Reddy when he donated Ra 100 crore to Young India Skills University through Adani Foundation. His son Karan Adani was also present on the occasion.
The opposition BRS on Monday slammed the Telangana government after gatherings of more than five people, processions, dharnas, rallies or public meetings were banned ahead of Diwali celebrations, even as the police commissioner clarified it was not a curfew.
It all began with a controversy over the appointment of BRS MLA Arekapudi Gandhi as the Public Accounts Committee chairman in the Legislative Assembly.
Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy tendered an apology to the Supreme Court on Friday after the apex court expressed strong displeasure over the Telangana Chief Minister's statement that he gave on the top court granting bail to BRS leader K Kavitha.
BRS working president KT Rama Rao promptly slammed the Union Minister alleging that he was casting aspersions on the judges of Supreme Court and urged the apex court to initiate contempt proceedings.
Rao, popularly known as KTR, listed a number of questions on the scam starting with “Who are the nine bank account holders in Hyderabad to whom the ST Corporation money of Rs 45 crore was transferred?”
The controversy surrounding the installation of Rajiv Gandhi’s statue further escalated on Tuesday as Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy severely criticised the BRS and vowed to install the statue of the former Prime Minister at the designated spot, opposite the state Secretariat. He also assured that the statue of Telangana Talli would be installed inside the state Secretariat.
