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.
“This will be a litmus test for the BJP leadership in Delhi…” the BRS working president wrote in his complaint to Union Minister for Urban Development Manoharlal Khattar.
Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Bandi Sanjay Kumar on Tuesday demanded the withdrawal of a defamation notice served on him by BRS working president KT Rama Rao, along with a public apology from the latter
Accusing Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Bandi Sanjay Kumar of vendetta politics and misuse of his position as a minister, BRS working president KT Rama Rao sent a defamation notice against him with a demand for an unconditional apology within seven days.
Rao has also accused a minister in the state Cabinet of meeting Gautam Adani in Hyderabad to usurp 84 acres of government land in Raidurgam.
The verbal sparring between the ruling Congress and opposition BRS turned ugly after Forest Minister Konda Surekha made a personal attack on BRS working president KT Rama Rao which not only bordered on character assassination but also dragged the name of a prominent South Indian star through the mud.
There was a scuffle between the Congress workers who stopped the convoy and shouted slogans of “KTR go back” and BRS supporters.
Rao went public with the allegation that the firm owned by the chief minister’s brother-in-law was given the tenders despite not meeting the eligibility criteria.
Rao also advised the government to go ahead with the Pharma City plan as conceived during his tenure.
Chief minister Revanth Reddy said that while his ministers were tirelessly working on the ground the Opposition was missing from action.
