“Big Money Offered”: Attempt To Buy 4 MLAs From KCR’s Party, Cops Allege

Makes an attempt are being made to poach on the MLAs of Telangana’s ruling occasion, and three individuals have been detained from a farmhouse whereas making an attempt to chop a deal, the Telangana police have mentioned. The targets have been 4 MLAs of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi, who had tipped off the police, police chief Stephen Raveendra advised NDTV in an unique interview. Sources mentioned the offers may very well be to the tune of Rs 100 crore or extra. On this case, they’d supplied Rs 100 crore to the important thing individual, plus Rs 50 crore for every MLA, a supply mentioned.

The search on the farmhouse situated in Aziz Nagar was performed this night, the police mentioned. The MLAs had referred to as the police, saying they have been being “lured and bribed to vary events,” Mr Raveendra advised NDTV.  “They mentioned they have been supplied massive cash, contracts and posts to modify events,” he added.

The police have up to now ascertained that the boys detained had come to Hyderabad on pretend identities, he added.   

The police mentioned the detained individuals have recognized themselves as Satiesh Sharma, alias Ram Chandra Bharati, a priest from Haryana’s Faridabad, D Simhayaji, a seer from Tirupathi, and a businessman, Nandakumar.

Tandur MLA Pilot Rohit Reddy, at whose farmhouse the deal was brokered, has been described as a complainant. The 4 MLAs have been taken to Pragathi Bhavan, the Chief Minister’s official residence.

Since 2019, there have been claims that the BJP was making an attempt to launch an “Operation Lotus” in Telangana, one other southern state the place the occasion is but to discover a toehold.

The claims have been fuelled by the occasions in Maharashtra, the place the BJP-backed revolt of Eknath Shinde toppled the Uddhav Thackeray authorities earlier this yr.  

Lately, Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Celebration claimed that the BJP was making an attempt to poach on its MLAs in Delhi and Punjab.

In August, there have been stories of a BJP chief claiming that round 18 MLAs of TRS would quickly be part of the BJP.

Telangana BJP leaders DK Aruna and the BJP MP from Nizamabad, D Arvind, mentioned Chief Minister Ok Chandrasekhar Rao and his occasion organised the “horse-trade drama” to distract consideration from Munugode, they mentioned.

“It’s a drama. KCR understood that the TRS is dropping in Munugode. In order that they orchestrated this drama,” BJP chief Vivek Venkataswamy mentioned.