Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao’s daughter K. Kavitha on Wednesday called the allegations against her in the Delhi liquor scam case “bogus and false”.
The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader called the allegations against her a “political vendetta” by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and said time would prove her sincerity.
Kavitha, a Telangana Legislative Council member, made the statement in response to tweets from Congress MP and Telangana in-charge Manickam Tagore and BJP leader Komatireddy Rajagopal Reddy.
“The accusations on me are completely bogus and false. Only time will prove my sincerity. It’s a political vendetta of BJP, as they fear BRS Party Chief CM KCR ji’s expose on their anti-farmer & pro-capitalist policies,” Kavitha tweeted.
She was responding to Manickam Tagore’s tweet, which stated that she has many explanations to make.
The Congress leader was responding to media reports that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) claimed in its chargesheet in the case that Kavitha paid a bribe of Rs 100 crore to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
According to the ED, the South Group, which included Kavitha, Aurobindo Pharma director Sharat Chandra Reddy, and YSR Congress MP Magunta Srinivasula Reddy, paid kickbacks of Rs 100 crore to Arvind Kejriwal’s AAP to gain control of the national capital’s liquor business.
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The South Group is said to have bagged wholesale trade and several retail zones. The ED claimed that Kavitha, along with the Magunta family, owns a 65 percent stake in Indospirit, which made at least Rs 195 crore in profit by selling 14 crore bottles in retail.
Kavitha also responded to another tweet by Rajagopal Reddy of the BJP. “Liquor Queen’s name was mentioned 28 times in the chargesheet,” the BJP leader tweeted, referring to a newspaper report.
The BRS leader cautioned him not to be hasty. “Not 28 times, even if my name is mentioned 28,000 times, a lie does not become truth,” tweeted Kavitha with the hashtag truth will prevail.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) questioned Kavitha for more than seven hours on December 11. Section 160 of the Criminal Procedure Code was used to record her statement by the central agency.
On November 30, Kavitha’s name appeared in the ED’s remand report filed in a Delhi court for the remand of businessman Amit Arora in connection with the Delhi liquor policy scam.
According to the remand report, businessman Vijay Nair, who has already been arrested in the case, received Rs 100 crore in kickbacks from South Group on behalf of AAP leaders.
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