Former minister Pilli Subhash Chandra Bose on Saturday condemned the scathing attack on former Government Advisor and MP KVP Ramachandra Rao by staunch Y S Jaganmohan Reddy loyalist Konda Surekha on Friday.
Terming the attack as 'disturbing', Bose said that KVP had never been accused of any irregularity while former Chief Minister, the late Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, was in power. He also said that KVP's family had close relations with the YSR family for decades.
Meanwhile, senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha member V Hanumantha Rao demanded that KVP issue a clarification on the allegations made by Surekha.
Hanumantha Rao added that Surekha, a former minister, might have made the allegations after former Kadapa MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy and KVP had developed some differences due to some 'financial dealings'. He, however, did not elaborate on what these 'financial dealings' were.
Surekha had on Friday demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the properties owned by KVP, and said that such a probe would reveal the extent of wealth accumulated by him before and after YSR had become the Chief Minister.
She had also alleged that KVP and Minister Ponnala Laxmaiah had jointly looted the state through the 'Jalayagnam' irrigation projects by taking commission from the contractors.
The strong YSR family loyalist had also described KVP as a broker and backstabber of the YSR family.
The former minister had also alleged that KVP had collected the signatures of 150 MLAs on a petition asking that Jaganmohan Reddy be made the Chief Minister.
Surekha added that because of KVP's conspiracy, Jaganmohan Reddy became the target of the Congress High Command's wrath.
Jaganmohan Reddy fell from the grace of the Congress High Command due to KVP's machinations, she pointed out.
The former minister added that KVP then turned his attention to Y S Vivekananda Reddy, YSR's brother, and used him as a pawn in High Command's hands to split the YSR family.