Telangana Congress president, A. Revanth Reddy alleged that the real reason for the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) turning into Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) was the corruption cases pending against the party in the Delhi High Court with regard to illegal collection of money through ‘Gulabi coolie’.
He said the TRS would be legally finished if the judgment in the case was delivered and that was why Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao was in a hurry to change the name. He said the Delhi High Court asked the Election Commission of India (ECI) to inquire into the ‘Gulabi Coolie” allegations based on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by him in 2018.
Mr. Reddy said hundreds of crores were collected by the TRS through “Gulabi Coolie” and as per the Supreme Court orders MLAs, MPs and MLCs would be committing a crime if they indulged in collection of funds and it was equivalent to taking bribes.
