Cash for vote scam: Chandrababu Naidu should be made accused if there is evidence, says KTR

Hyderabad: Telangana minister K T Rama Rao on Tuesday said if there was evidence against the TDP chief and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu in the cash-for-vote case involving party's Telangana MLA Revanth Reddy, then Naidu too should be made an accused.

"The law has to take its own course. Chandrababu Naidu or KCR (Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao) or anybody is not above the law. If there is enough evidence and if there is a prima facie case, there is no reason why Chandrababu Naidu should not be arraigned," Rao, Telangana Panchayat Raj and Information Technology minister, said here.

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Replying to the question if his party Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) was going to demand making Naidu an accused, Rao said: "Naidu, or for that matter anybody is not above the law in this country. Law of the land has to be implemented."

On Sunday, Revanth Reddy was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Bureau while allegedly trying to bribe MLA Elvis Stephenson to vote for TDP nominee in yesterday's Telangana Legislative Council polls.

"Naidu, who often preaches morality in politics, should now come forward and answer (on Reddy's statement that he was acting at the former's behest)," Rao said.

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"It's been 48 hours and he (Naidu) has still not opened his mouth. He should disown his MLA completely or suspend him from the party and come forward and say that this man was not acting at his behest."

Asked if a special session of the Assembly will be called to move a resolution seeking the TDP MLA's suspension, Rao said, "We have a precedence in the country... the then Lok

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Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee had taken a stand and we have some court judgements... all we have to do is follow them."

"They (ACB) have to dig deeper and hopefully it will come out who were behind this, who was the mastermind," Rao said.