Through the ACB raids on liquor syndicates, the Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy has rubbed many of his colleagues on the wrong side. According to sources more than 80 Congress MPs, MLAs and ministers are engaged in liquor trade. They are all now sore that the CM was striking at their very financial roots. According to information of the 80, 9 are MPs while there are 3 MLCs.
All these leaders are now screaming fowl at the Chief Minister’s action and are said to be after his blood. Minister DL Ravindra Reddy has already given a caste twist to this affair. He has alleged that though the ACB has mentioned about the name of a Reddy minister from Telangana in its remand diary along with the name of the Excise Minister Mopidevi Venkata Ramana who is a BC, the CM got the name of his Reddy colleague removed and allowed the name of Mopidevi to be made public.
A delegation of this powerful group of liquor trading public representatives have met the PCC chief Botcha Satyanarayana late on Thursday night and expressed their resentment. Botcha is reported to have assured them that he would talk to the CM.