Vijayawada, December 09: Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) Secretary K Shivaji today urged the Election Commission (EC) and Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar to cancel the membership of Telugu Desam Lok Sabha Parliamentary Party (TDPP) leader Nama Nageswara Rao as he failed to show payment of lease amount in the affidavit filed by him ahead of the general elections held in April this year.
Addressing a press conference here, he claimed that Mr Rao had failed to mention in his affidavit the payment amount of Rs 27.26 crore due to Mines and Geology Department.
Mr Shivaji said in a letter to the EC and Lok Sabha Speaker on the issue, he had mentioned that M/s Madhucon Project, owned by Mr Rao, had taken lease of 11 acres of quarry at Ibrahimpatnam near here in 1998 against the consumed quantitites of minor minerals in the national highway works allotted to them. But the company had not paid any royalty to the Mines and Geology Department, Vijayawada and the later had issued a notice to them in 2000 stating that it had failed to pay Rs 27.26 crore for taking quarry on lease.
The Congress leader appreciated the stand taken by Chief Minister K Rosaiah for not budging to the TRS leaders’ agitation on moving a resolution in the Assembly for separate Telangana state.
—Agencies