Kavitha’s father, K Chandrasekhar Rao, is a key opposition leader in the center.
New Delhi:
K Kavitha, Bharat Rashtra Samithi leader and daughter of Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, is being questioned by the Department of Enforcement in a Delhi alcohol policy case. Manish Sisodia has been arrested in a similar case.
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Ms. Kavitha will meet with the Executive Director (ED) on Thursday. Citing her hunger strike that was scheduled in Delhi on Friday to seek to introduce the Women’s Exclusively Bill in parliament, she asked the ED to postpone her questioning until today, which the central authority has agreed to.
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Ministers from Telangana cabinet are arriving at K Kavitha’s residence. Her brother and Telangana minister KT Rama Rao arrived last night, her mother and husband are also in Delhi. Several senior ministers and party leaders are heading to the capital to show solidarity with the Telangana Premier’s daughter. Education Minister Sabitha Indra Reddy, Satyavathi Rathod, minister of women, child welfare and tribal affairs, V Srinivas Goud, minister of tourism and excise, Zahirabad MP BB Patil, and Rajya Sabha MP K Keshava Rao has arrived at her residence.
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Posters have appeared in Hyderabad showing leaders from different parties have joined the BJP and are not currently facing any agency raids.
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Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and former Delhi Deputy Minister Manish Sisodia were under ED surveillance. He was also arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for alleged corruption in the formulation of Delhi’s new alcohol policy, which was later rescinded.
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The main focus of the investigation into the Delhi alcohol policy case is on an alleged network of middlemen, businessmen and politicians that central authorities refer to as the “Southern Group”. The ED alleges that the alcohol policy was tailored to help “South Group” companies and that Mr. Sisodia diluted the policy in their favor without any consultation.
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One of the “Southern Groups” under the radar was Miss Kavitha. Her father K Chandrasekhar Rao, commonly known as KCR, is a key opposition leader in the center. This has led to accusations against the BJP-led center of using central authorities to harass opposition leaders with false cases.
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“In India, there is no difference between a summons from the Executive Board and a summons from (Narendra) Modi… It is the current practice wherever there is an election, before the Prime Minister, The Enforcement Directorate comes. What can the opposition do? Go to the people’s court or the people’s court Supreme Court,” Ms. Kavitha told NDTV on Friday.
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Her brother and Telangana Minister KT Rama Rao also arrived in Delhi yesterday, the day before the ED questioned his sister. The KCR yesterday told party leaders it would fight to stop harassment by rival BJP using central agencies, PTI news agency reported. “Our struggle will continue until the BJP is ousted from (power) in the country,” KCR said.
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Ms Kavitha, 44, said the BJP was trying to “threaten my leadership”, referring to her father KCR, who is hoping to take power for a third consecutive term in the state, where parliamentary elections are held. will happen in the next few months.
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At the Delhi trial in Mr Sisodia’s case yesterday, his lawyer criticized the ED for treating arrest as a right without due process. Dayan Krishna, Mr. Sisodia’s lawyer, said: “It has become fashionable for agencies to treat arrest as a right. It is time for the courts to severely punish this sense of entitlement.” .
