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Chandrababu in controversy over cash-for-vote case

by IBNS 07 Jun 2015, 09:54 pm

Hyderabad, June 8 (IBNS) Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has come amid a major controversy as he completes one year in office on Monday, media reports said.

A local news channel in Telangana, TNews, belonging to Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao's family, has aired an audio recording that they claim is proof that the cash-for-vote case in which a legislator belonging to Andhra Pradesh[s ruling Telugu Desam Party was arrested last Sunday, had the full backing of  Naidu. 

TDP legislator Revanth Reddy was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Bureau after he was allegedly caught red-handed offering a bribe to nominated legislator Elvis Stephenson. 

The bribe was allegedly in exchange for the support in Telangana legislative council  elections to be held the next day.

In audio-video tapes released by the Anti-Corruption Bureau, TDP legislator Revanth Reddy repeatedly refers to his "boss" and also refers to Naidu by name,  saying he has been authorised directly by the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister.

"I am telling you that authentically this is not the conversation that was of the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh... We are going to fight this out constitutionally, legally and politically," media reports quoted  Parakala Prabhakar, Advisor (Communications) to the Andhra Pradesh government.