Naidu May Go To Jail In Revanth Reddy Case: TRS

Condemning the letter written by A P Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu to Prime Minister Narendra Modi asking for enforcement of Section 8 of the A P Reorganisation Act in Hyderabad, Telangana Commercial Taxes Minister Talasani Srinivas Yadav today opined that the former may go to jail in a few days in connection with "his active role" in Revanth Reddy note-for-vote scam.

Addressing the media at the Secretariat on Saturday, the minister said that several media reports had already concluded that Naidu could not escape the noose when in a few days the ACB came out with more details.

Instead of resorting to mud-slinging against his Telangana counterpart, Naidu should prove his innocence by resigning from the chief minister post, he suggested.

Even if the Centre intervenes, the TRS government would not budge in favour of a compromise formula, he said.

Terming Naidu as a "cunning fellow" and "thief", Talasani said the principal accused in the scam would not get Narendra Modi's support.

A section of the media was trying to safeguard Naidu's interests and mute the scam, he alleged.

It was an indictment of his actions that though all the AP ministers were living in their homes safely in Hyderabad, Naidu had written a letter to Modi stressing the need to enforce Section 8 of the A P Reorganisation Act, he said.

Yadav sought to know what the TDP leaders from Telangana had to say Naidu's letter.

The AP CM was talking in frustration, and aiming to make the people believe that there was a law and order problem in Hyderabad in order to escape from the scam, he said. The people of AP and everywhere should be wary of Naidu resorting to such nefarious politics, he cautioned.

Naidu had no right to talk on defections as he had taken a few elected YSR Congress leaders into his party's fold, he said, adding that the former should resign and prove his innocence.

Rejecting comments that Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao was resorting to vengeance politics, Yadav said that the ACB was doing its job and that the law would take its own course. (NSS)