The BRS is worried. With charges flying thick and fast over the alleged role of former chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao in the phone tapping case in Telangana during the BRS rule, the party, under pressure that include serious worries over the outcome for it in the Lok Sabha elections, appears enveloped in a mood of trepidation. With former DCP P Radha Kishan Rao confessing and naming the former chief minister as directly involved in the case, the party is worried where all of this might lead to.
It may be recalled that Chandrashekar Rao had earlier said tapping of phones was a routine matter for the police department, and as the Chief Minister, he had no knowledge of it. But Radha Kishan Rao’s revelations have set off a new round of worry in the party. Another accused in the case, DSP N.
Bhujanga Rao, in his confession, further stirred the pot by linking former minister T. Harish Rao to the case with respect to monitoring phones of several politicians and media journalists. On Wednesday, BRS’ former minister S Niranjan Reddy sought to deflect the blows.
At a press conference, he said as far as the BRS was concerned, the case was a ‘silly issue’. Calling it ‘nonsense without any legal sense’, he added confessions are never accepted as evidence by law. Instructions, if given, and by whom, will be determined when the case goes to the court, he said.
The BRS is also simultaneously seeking to project that phone tapping is commonplace, claiming that Chandrashekar Rao.
