Hyderabad:
Telangana legislator K Kavitha, who was named by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday in a court filing over its investigation into the now-scrapped Delhi liquor policy, today took aim at the Bharatiya Janata Party and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying any state where elections are to happen, the Enforcement Directorate arrives before the PM.
“Bachcha bachcha jaanta hai, Modi se pehle ED aatha hai (every child knows, ED arrives before Modi),” she said, challenging PM Modi to put her in jail if he wants to.
Without going into the specifics of allegations against her, Ms Kavitha said ED and CBI cases against leaders of her party, Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), is “low level politics”.
“You cannot win elections using your central agencies,” she said, further alleging that the BJP has “destabilised nine states in eight years”.
She accused the BJP of conspiring to destabilise the KCR-led state government, and using central agencies to “defame” them.
Ms Kavitha, however, said they “welcome” the central agencies and will cooperate with them.
The central probe agency, citing statements by an arrested Gurugram businessman Amit Arora, has claimed that K Kavitha, daughter of Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, was a key member of the “South Group” which paid at least Rs 100 crore in kickbacks to leaders of Delhi’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) via another arrested businessman Vijay Nair.
K Kavitha’s name has come up in a remand report filed by the Enforcement Directorate, citing statements by an arrested gurugram businessman, Amit Arora.
The central agency claimed Ms Kavitha was a key member of the “south group” which paid at least Rs 100 crore in kickbacks to leaders of Delhi’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) via another arrested businessman, Vijay Nair.
“As per the investigation carried so far, Sh Vijay Nair, on behalf of leaders of AAP has at least received kickbacks to the tune of Rs 100 Cr from a group; called South Group (controlled by Sh Sarath Reddy, Ms. K Kavitha, Sh Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy) by various persons including Amit Arora. The same has been disclosed by the arrestee Sh Amit Arora in his statements,” the ED said.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Mr Sisodia and the AAP have rubbished charges of impropriety and have ascribed the allegations to a vendetta by the BJP, which controls the government and agencies like the ED and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
The BJP is also at war with Telangana Chief Minister KCR who has launched an all-out attack on the party as he prepares to foray into national politics.
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