Mahabubnagar MLA Yennem Srinivas Reddy argued that BRS chief K. Chandrasekhar Rao himself had admitted to phone tapping when he displayed the video footage of BJP agents trying to ‘buy out’ the then BRS MLAs.
At a press conference here, he claimed that KCR as Chief Minister then had admitted in a press conference about how they were trapped and their phones were tapped. In fact, even the video footage of the alleged trap was also displayed to the media. It is evident from that day itself that the BRS government was into phone tapping, he argued.
Mr. Reddy alleged that Pragathi Bhavan (now Mahatma Phule Praja Bhavan) was the epicentre of phone tapping. Police officials indulged in the illegal activity under the directions of the then Chief Minister. Even the then DGP was not aware of a special team formed for phone tapping. Phones of terrorists are tapped for national security, but never were the phones of Opposition leaders tapped, he said.
