TDP senior leader and former minister Gali Muddu Krishnama Naidu has alleged that Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy was involved in the liquor scam unearthed by the Anti-Corruption Bureau recently.
Speaking at the Assembly media point, Naidu said that apart from the name of Excise Minister Mopidevi Venkata Ramana Rao, the ACB report on its raids also contains the name of PCC Chief and Transport Minister Botsa Satyanarayana. He also alleged that the Chief Minister was trying to save his ministers. Naidu alleged that the Chief Minister called the ACB director and directed him to delete the names of ministers from its report on liquor syndicate scam.
He also charged the government with running away from a discussion on the issue, as the Chief Minister and ministers were involved. He displayed some documents to the media to show that Mopidevi’s son Rajiv has entered into an agreement with a foreign company and under it, was distributing liquor all over the State. He alleged that the government has reduced the share of noted suppliers like the United Breweries and giving orders to the company owned by the minister’s son.
He also stated that in Nizampatnam, native place of the minister, two wine shops were auctioned just for a few hundred rupees more than the previous year, while in all other shop auctions resulted in 300 to 500 per cent more revenue compared to previous year. He said that this clearly showed that it was the minister who was behind the auction of those two shops. He claimed that the TDP has details of liquor kickbacks of Warangal, Srikakulam, Visakhapatnam, Guntur, Adilabad and other districts.
He said that soon they would get details of all the districts. He also said that they have a copy of the ACB report with them to assail the government.
Referring to the assurance of AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi that he would make UP as another Andhra Pradesh if voted to power, Muddu Krishnama Naidu questioned if Rahul would allow liquor to flow freely like in AP in UP also.