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The Bharatiya Janata Party’s national general secretary BL Santosh has been summoned by Telangana police in connection with the alleged attempts of the BJP to poach MLAs from the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi. The latest summons is yet another case of the bitter TRS versus BJP battle in the state.
As per ANI report, Santosh has been summoned by the Telangana government-appointed special investigation team constituted to investigate alleged attempts by BJP to poach TRS legislators.
The SIT led by the Hyderabad police commissioner CV Anand and supervised by a judge reports to the high court.
The court also ordered that all information regarding the probe would only be submitted to the judge in a sealed envelope by November 29.
The Cyberabad police had on October 26 arrested three persons- Ramachandra Bharati alias Satish Sharma, Nanda Kumar and Simhayaji Swamy at a farmhouse in Ranga Reddy on charges that they attempted to poach some TRS MLAs to the BJP.
Earlier on November 6, Telangana BJP MLA Etela Rajender accused the KCR government of trying to “finish the Opposition” by “purchasing” their legislators.
Earlier on November 3, KCR had released a video of the BJP allegedly trying to poach his party MLAs. The Chief Minister was reacting to the October 26 incident.
KCR accused BJP of destroying all systems in the country. “There are troubling situations in the country. Democracy is being killed in the country. I speak with great pain. I can’t believe that such evil can exist. Unemployment has increased. The value of the rupee has fallen. The BJP has destroyed the country in all fields,” KCR had said while speaking to the media.
