Hyderabad:

Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Saturday described BRS leader K Kavitha’s arrest in a money laundering case as a “soap opera”, seeking to understand why former CM K Chandrasekhar Rao remained silent on the issue.

Addressing a press conference, Reddy said Prime Minister Narendra Modi and KCR should stop these “political farces” and questioned what the Prime Minister has done for Telangana in the past decade.

He claimed that the BJP was trying to become the champion against corruption, while the RSS would play the sympathy card through arrests.

“As far as the liquor case is concerned, a drama that is as much a TV drama as a soap opera is being enacted by the family of former Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao and the BJP. The drama that has been going on for several years has reached its climax after yesterday’s arrest .What does this mean for the arrest drama a day before the poll schedule is announced? They (BJP) want to be the crusader against corruption and these (BRS) want to gain sympathy from it. Both are playing strategic politics Role this is strategy,” the chief minister said while reacting to the arrest.

The Enforcement Directorate on Friday arrested BRS leader KCR’s daughter Kavitha in Hyderabad in connection with a money laundering probe related to the Delhi excise policy scam.

“Earlier they used to say Modi comes first and then the CE. But yesterday, Modi and the CE came on the same day,” he further said, adding that some agencies are behaving like a front for the BJP organize.

He alleged that Ms. Kavitha was arrested a day before the polls so that the BRS and the BJP could gain political benefits.

Prime Minister Modi held a roadshow in Hyderabad on Friday.

He said both the RSS and RSS were resorting to “cheap political tactics” to attack the Congress as multiple surveys showed that the old major party would get 12 seats out of the total 17 seats in the Lok Sabha.

“If anyone tries to topple the Congress government in the state, we have our own plan (to stop them). Our government will continue to exist for the next ten years,” Reddy said.

To a query, he said his party was opposed to the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the abolition of reservations for minorities.

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