Governor's Permission Not Needed To Arrest KTR: BJP

BJP MP Raghunandan Rao today asked Chief Minister Revanth Reddy what the need was for seeking the Governor's permission to arrest BRS leader K T Rama Rao, and said that the Congress government was merely indulging in politics over the issue.

Addressing a press conference at the BJP State office in Nampally, Rao said, "Where is the need for the Governor's permission to arrest an MLA? Have MLAs not been arrested before? Revanth Reddy himself was arrested twice during the BRS regime - did KCR seek the Governor's consent then?"

The BJP MP accused the Chief Minister of just misleading the public, and claimed that Reddy was just "buying time with lies" instead of taking action against KCR's family in the alleged Formula E car race scam.

Rao also said that despite the NDSA and P C Ghosh Commission reports and a CBI probe order, the State government had failed to file a counter-affidavit in the Telangana High Court, resulting in a stay on the investigation against KCR, Harish Rao and senior IAS officers.

He also slammed the Congress for its "vote-bank politics" in the Jubilee Hills by-election, and alleged that the party was aligning with the AIMIM.