The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has condemned the arrest of its MLC and Bharat Jagruthi president K. Kavitha after the court hours on Friday and termed it politically-motivated to hit the moral of the party leadership and ranks ahead of the Lok Sabha elections and called for protests in all constituencies on Saturday.
Addressing a press conference after the Enforcement Directorate officials took Ms. Kavitha to airport for taking her to Delhi on Friday night, BRS leaders T. Harish Rao, G. Jagadish Reddy, V. Prashanth Reddy and P. Kaushik Reddy said it was another measure of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government at the Centre to force the Opposition parties into submission.
Mr. Harish Rao alleged that it was not new for BJP to coerce the Opposition parties with false cases, ED and IT raids and lifting the cases/charges after leaders of those parties join the BJP. He stated that the ED officials went to Ms. Kavitha’ residence late in the afternoon on the pretext of conducting searches and announced her arrest after the court hours, as per their pre-conceived plan to deny her any opportunity to knock the legal doors.
