Cash For MLAs Scam: BJP MLA Raghunandan Rao Files Complaint With ED

The sensational Cash For MLAs scam is taking new turns in the State with each passing day.

In a fresh development, BJP MLA M Raghunandan Rao has lodged a complaint with the Enforcement Directorate, that investigates financial irregularities, on the issue.

Rao visited the office of the ED and submitted his complaint along with an audio recording of a conversation between a TRS MLA and the accused.

In his complaint, Rao told the ED officials that it was being reported that the accused had tried to offer Rs 400 crore as bribes to MLAs. The police, however, did not talk about the money seized, he claimed.

He said that carrying Rs 2 lakh or above in unaccounted money amounted to money laundering, and that if the police had recovered any such money from the accused, then a case should have been filed against them for that transgression itself. However, the police had done nothing of that sort. And an ACB court had rejected the plea of the police to send the accused to judicial remand. These proved that the whole case was fake, and that the TRS leaders were levelling baseless allegations against the State and national leadership of the BJP, Rao told the ED.

Speaking to the media later, Rao said that he had urged the ED to inquire into the claims of TRS MLA Pilot Rohit Reddy that he was offered Rs 100 crore. He said that the ED officials had recorded his statement in the issue.