Kishan Reddy, TRS Spar Over "Cash For MLAs" Scam

Union Minister G Kishan Reddy today came down heavily on the TRS and Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao over the sensational "cash for MLAs" scam.

Speaking to media persons at the State party office, Reddy alleged that it was the TRS which had encouraged defections by opposition MLAs and other leaders in the State, and that the ruling party had also made some of the defecting MLAs, cabinet ministers.

He claimed that the party had killed the YSRCP in the State after allowing all its MLAs to join the TRS after the 2014 Assembly elections. He also asked the CM on what basis he had allowed 12 Congress MLAs to join the TRS, and if his party had insisted that the defecting MLAs resign from their posts in order to join the TRS.

Reddy alleged that the TRS had come up with the scam in order to divert the attention of the people from the upcoming Munugodu by-election as it had found that it was losing the by-election by a massive margin. He said that the case was completely fabricated, and was aimed at maligning the image of the BJP. He said that there were several lacunae in the case, and just for starters it was still unclear where the money offered to the MLAs had come from.

The union minister also targeted the State police who are interrogating the scam, and asked them why they did not take any action against minister K T Rama Rao who had tried to lure a BJP leader to join the TRS over a phone call.

He asked the TRS leaders to get ready for an inquiry into the scam. He also asked the TRS leaders to seek an inquiry by either a sitting judge of the Supreme Court or the CBI into the scam.