TDP files multiple FIRs against KCR

Hyderabad/Vijayawada/Guntur: A day after an audio tape of Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu’s purported telephonic conversation surfaced in cash-for-vote scam, the TDP on Monday hit back with police complaints against Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao at various police stations in Andhra Pradesh.

Accusing the Telangana government of hatching a conspiracy to defame Naidu and terming it as an attack on people of Andhra Pradesh, the leaders of Telugu Desam Party lodged complaints against Rao at dozens of police stations across the State. The development came a day after an audio tape of a purported telephonic conversation between Naidu and nominated Telangana legislator Elvis Stephenson was aired on some TV channels.

TDP leaders lodged first information reports (FIRs) against Chandrashekhar Rao, officials of the Telanagana Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) and some TV channels. The FIRs were registered at various police stations in Krishna, Guntur, Visakhapatnam, Vijayanagaram, West Godavari, East Godavari, Nellore, Chittoor and Kurnool districts of Andhra Pradesh.

The complainants included Irrigation Minister Devineni Umamaheswar Rao and some legislators. They claimed that the TRS government fabricated the audio tape aired by some TV channels to implicate Naidu in a false case. The audio tape was aired on Sunday night by T News, a Telugu news channel owned by the TRS. It was later aired on other channels.

Cases under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) relating to criminal conspiracy and forgery were registered.TDP leaders and activists in different part of Andhra Pradesh took to the streets to protest against the TRS government. They raised slogans against KCR, as Chandrasekhar Rao is popularly called, and burnt his effigies.