Chief Ministers of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, K. Chandrasekhar Rao and Nara Chandrababu Naidu respectively, on Wednesday stepped up their moves in a determined bid to nail one another in connection with the raging controversy surrounding the cash-for vote scam.
While Telangana CM KCR held a detailed meeting with the state’s DGP Anurag Sharma and ACB DGP AK Khan and apprised himself of the probe into the scam and the material gathered so far to implicate his AP counter part, Chandrababu Naidu too on the other hand held a series of meetings with senior police officials of his state including DGP JV Ramudu to speed up- investigations with regard to tapping of phones and also cases filed against KCR in various police stations alleging intimidation of Christian Associations Federations convener Mathaiah Jerusalem, an A-4 in Revanth Reddy’s ‘note for vote’ case.
KCR is understood to have advised his officials to speed up the investigations and gather the required fool-proof evidences to corner Naidu by implicating him in the scam. It is reliably learnt that the ACB is contemplating to serve notices to AP Chief Minister and also three other TDP leaders including Union Minister Sujana Chowdhary and CM Ramesh.
Chandrababu Naidu on his part to take KCR head on in the matter has held an emergency meeting of his Cabinet to take stock of the situation and also seek approval for setting up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe cases filed as his Telangana counterpart. As a matter of fact, he had already decided to set up SIT headed by DIG Iqbal and likely to give the green signal for proceeding ahead once the Cabinet gives its consent. (NSS).