Harish Rao continues tirade against Naidu

Seeks Centre’s intervention in resolving the issue

Hyderabad: Taking the ongoing tussle between the Chief Ministers of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh to a new height, Telangana Irrigation Minister T Harish Rao on Saturday came down heavily on AP Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu for sending his police officials to serve notice on a Telangana television channel at late night with regard to ‘cash-for-vote’ episode.

Addressing the media here on Saturday, Harish Rao accused Naidu of creating a non-issue of Section 8 whose imposition was not at all required now to a huge controversy. The Centre, he said, should intervene in the issue for raking up the issue only to divert his involvement in the Revanth Reddy episode, he alleged.

“We will complain against Chandrababu Naidu and his police officials to Governor ESL Narsimhan over the notices issued on the T News channel and seek necessary action. Section 8 is necessary only when there were attacks on the freedom of people and their assets in the city,” he felt. Though no such incident has taken place so far, Naidu was deliberately insisting on the use of Section 8 only to divert the main issue of his involvement in the scam, Harish said.

Afraid of the noose and to escape from the case, Naidu had appointed Gandhi, former chief of Forensic Lab, to analyse the tapes, he alleged. Naidu should prove his integrity if he had guts and come out with clarity, he demanded. “We are not ready to keep quiet in this regard and the law will take its own course.

Naidu is known for sabotaging Telangana development,” Harish charged. Instead of giving clarity on the cash-for-vote row, Naidu was trying to dominate Telangana State where he had no say, he felt. Hyderabad was just a common capital for time-being until the AP government built its own facilities at its capital, he added.