The Chief Ministers of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, K Chandrashekar Rao and Nara Chandrababu Naidu respectively, on Wednesday stepped up their moves in a determined bid to nail each other in connection with the raging controversy surrounding the note-for-vote case.
While Telangana CM KCR held a detailed meeting with the state's DGP Anurag Sharma and ACB DGP A K Khan and had himself apprised of the probe into the scam and the material gathered so far to implicate his AP counterpart, Naidu too held a series of meetings with senior police officials of his state including DGP J V Ramudu to speed up investigations into the tapping of phones and also into cases filed against KCR in various police stations alleging intimidation of Christian Associations Federations convener Mathaiah Jerusalem, A-4 in the Revanth Reddy note-for-vote case.
KCR is understood to have advised his officials to speed up the investigations and gather the required fool-proof evidence to corner Naidu by implicating him in the case. It is reliably learnt that the ACB is contemplating serving notices to the AP Chief Minister and also three other TDP leaders including Union Minister Sujana Chowdhary and C M Ramesh.
Chandrababu Naidu on his part, to take KCR head on, has held an emergency meeting of his Cabinet to take stock of the situation and also seek approval for the setting up of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe cases filed against KCR. He had in fact already decided to set up an SIT headed by DIG Iqbal, and is likely to give the green signal for proceeding once the Cabinet gives its consent. (NSS).