Telangana Congress has wondered how people from Telangana were involved in the liquor policy of the Delhi government and sought an inquiry into the alleged role of MLC K. Kavitha.
Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader Bhatti Vikramarka, who spoke to the media in New Delhi along with Nalgonda MP N. Uttam Kumar Reddy, Manthani MLA D. Sreedhar Babu, MLC T. Jeevan Reddy and TPCC Campaign Committee chairman Madhu Yaskhi Goud, said it was surprising that people from Telangana had rented rooms in Oberoi Hotel and were framing the excise policy. “I can’t imagine people coming from Hyderabad in special flights to New Delhi to decide on the excise policy since similar policy existed in Telangana,” he said.
He said if this was a big scam in Delhi then the policy in Telangana should also be a scam. In the combined Andhra Pradesh the excise revenue was less than ₹10,000 crore and this has now increased to ₹30,000 crore in a small State like Telangana. “We have been raising the issue on the liquor prices, supplies and the commissions involved in it but there is no response from the government.”
Mr. Vikramarka wanted to know who has been fixing the liquor prices in Telangana for the last few years and who were part of the price fixation committee and who were the suppliers. The BJP government at the Centre is claiming the excise policy of the Delhi government is a big scam but why is the Centre not asking the CBI to probe into the links and those involved in it, he asked.
Mr. Madhu Yaskhi Goud alleged that Ms. Kavitha was involved in the alleged scam and it reflects in the massive wealth amassed by her in the last 8 years. “A person who used to stay in a three-bedroom flat earlier now owns buildings worth ₹300 crore apart from costly buildings in Bengaluru.
He said why are the TRS leaders getting panicky as soon as Ms. Kavitha’s name was linked to the Delhi Excise Policy scam? TRS ministers and several MLAs have a role in all the scams in Telangana, he alleged. He said Ms. Kavitha’s name has also emerged in the ‘illegal’ permission given to the Phoenix group for creating a Golf course in the lands given to Padmalaya Studios.
