KTR slams Congress government’s selective action on channels, digital media

BRS working president KT Rama Rao launched a scathing attack on the Congress government in Telangana, accusing it of misusing Special Investigation Teams (SITs) to target select media outlets while shielding ruling party-linked scandals.

Hyderabad: Lashing out at the Congress government for constituting a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe and initiate action against a few channels and digital media, BRS working president KT Rama Rao said this was yet another diversionary tactic to divert people’s attention from the failures of the government.

He came down heavily on the Revanth Reddy government for sparing the news channel, which had broadcast a news story on a Minister’s misconduct and affairs. It was strange that the Congress government had not taken any action against the news channel. But, it constituted a SIT to initiate action against other channels and digital media for quoting and referring to the same news report broadcast on the channel, which favours the ruling party, he said.

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“Why is this drama being enacted by the Congress government? Who are being spared and who are being targeted?” Rama Rao asked, also warning that the people were observing the government’s misdeeds and would teach a fitting lesson to the ruling party.

Strangely, despite many complaints and allegations over the irregularities in the Congress government, no SIT was constituted. If the Congress government was really committed, an SIT should be constituted and a probe should be conducted, he demanded.“A Minister’s Personal Assistant along with a close aide of Revanth Reddy threatened an industrialist at gunpoint and demanded Rs 300 crore. Yet, no SIT is constituted to investigate the case,” Rama Rao pointed out.

Similarly, in Mulugu district, another Minister’s PA was making crores in sand scams, but no case or action was being taken against such offenders. The Revenue Minister’s son along with 70 goons was involved in land grabbing on Hyderabad’s outskirts. No SIT or no action was taken and ironically, the police officer, who registered the case was transferred, Rama Rao said.

Listing out the irregularities in the Congress government, the BRS working president charged that AICC Secretary and Revanth Reddy’s close friend Sampath Kumar threatened a contractor with dire consequences and demanded Rs 8 crore, but no action was taken.

Why was no SIT constituted to probe into the Rs 100 crore scam in procurement of bunker beds in Kasturba Gandhi schools? Why was no probe conducted into the liquor bottle hologram tender scam in which an IAS officer was blamed and made a scapegoat, he asked.

“The Supreme Court’s Committee observed that there was a major fraud in the sale of 400 acres of university land. Why was an SIT not constituted in this scam?” Rama Rao asked.

The SITs and Commissions were being formed to waste time in the guise of inquiry. The SITs were being set up only to harass and suppress the media and digital media voice and to cover up the internal squabbling in the party, besides corruption and irregularities in the government, he added.