Telengana Congress calls for CBI probe into defection of 12 MLAs to TRS

The Telangana Congress on Friday, January 7, demanded that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) conduct a radical investigation into the alleged poaching of its MLAs, MPs, and MLCs by the erstwhile Telangana Rashtra Samithi (now Bharat Rashtra Samithi) between 2014 and 2019.

A delegation of the Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) led by A Revanth Reddy filed a grievance with the Moinabad police underneath Cyberabad police limits, looking for motion towards the BRS management, together with chief minister Okay Chandrashekar Rao, for allegedly poaching the Congress’ elected public representatives.

కాంగ్రెస్ నుండి టిఆర్ఎస్ లోకి ఫిరాయించి పదవులు,ఆర్థిక ప్రయోజనాలు పొందిన 12 మంది ఎమ్మెల్యేలపై మొయినాబాద్ పోలీసు స్టేషన్ లో ఫిర్యాదు

సీబీఐ చేపట్టిన ఎమ్మెల్యేల కొనుగోళ్ల కేసు విచారణలో,మేం ఇచ్చిన ఆధారాలతో అవినీతి నిరోధక చట్టం కింద వారి పైన,వాళ్లను ప్రలోభపెట్టిన కేసీఆర్ కు శిక్షపడాలి pic.twitter.com/JL3qP1WDfr

— Revanth Reddy (@revanth_anumula) January 6, 2023

“If the Moinabad police do not act on our complaint, we shall approach the court seeking transfer of the case to the CBI, as was ordered in the case of alleged attempt to poach four BRS MLAs,” Revanth Reddy advised reporters after lodging the grievance.

In the grievance, the Telangana Congress alleged that quickly after coming to energy for a second time period in December 2018 meeting elections, the BRS (then TRS) management lured as many as 12 Congress MLAs into the ruling social gathering one after the opposite over a number of months.

Lodged a grievance towards 12 MLAs who have been elected from @INCIndia & later turned away from @INCTelangana with proof & urged @TelanganaCOPs to boost a case underneath ACB & connect it to the CBI with Probing the MLA shopping for out the case at a farmhouse@INCIndia @kharge @Manikrao_INC pic.twitter.com/wYhAD3MeNS

— Dr.S.A.Sampath Kumar INC (@SampathKumarINC) January 6, 2023

The PCC requested that the police mix their grievance with the beforehand registered FIR submitted on October 26, 2022, towards three individuals on allegations of allegedly making an attempt to poach 4 BRS MLAs by bribing them with posts, contracts, and cash.

The PCC demanded that instances be filed towards the BRS management underneath Sections 120-B (legal conspiracy) and 171-B (bribery with legal intent) of the Indian Penal Code, in addition to Sections 7, 8, 13, and 14 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.

“We are not sheep or buffaloes to be purchased”, former Telangana Congress MLAs retaliated to poaching allegations

Notably, in 2019, the 12 MLAs of the Congress Party in Telangana who joined the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) retaliated to the allegation of their former social gathering that they have been lured by the TRS.

Refuting the allegations of the state management of the Congress Party, MLA Gandra Venkata Ramana Reddy, one of many 12 MLAs, stated that they weren’t sheep or buffaloes to be bought. “Congress Party leaders’ comments are surprising. (They say MLAs) joined after being offered inducements, purchased, or out of fear. We are not kids to be made afraid. We are not the ones to fall for inducements. We are not sheep or buffaloes to be purchased”, stated Reddy, including that the MLAs merged with the TRS abiding by the Constitutional provisions.