3 min readHyderabadDec 16, 2022 03:18 PM IST
First published on: Dec 16, 2022 at 03:18 PM IST
Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) MLA P Rohith Reddy, who is the complainant in the MLA poaching bid case, has been summoned by the Enforcement Directorate to appear before it on December 19.
“The ED has asked for details of my businesses, bank statements of my and my family members’ accounts. It is not mentioned in the notice in which case I have been summoned,” the MLA said.
Telangana BJP chief Bandi Sanjay Kumar has been alleging for several days that the Tandur MLA was involved in illegal drugs trade and money laundering.
A magistrate recorded the MLA’s statement on Tuesday on a request from the special investigation team that inquires into the allegation that three BJP members—Ramachandra Bharati alias Satish Sharma, Nanda Kumar and Simhayaji Swami— had tried to lure Rohith Reddy and three other BRS MLAs into defecting to the BJP by offering bribes.
The MLA’s statement, on how he was allegedly approached by the three people and offered money, would be examined by a court after a chargesheet is filed in the case.
Rohith Reddy, who started his political career with the now-defunct Praja Rajyam Party floated by actor-turned-politician Chiranjeevi, is a director in Everest Infra Ventures (India) Private Limited.
When Telangana was formed, he joined the TRS but the party fielded Mahender Reddy from Tandur in the 2014 Assembly polls. Though he won and was made a minister, Mahender fought with Rohith for the upper hand in the constituency. Eventually the TRS expelled Rohith from the party and he joined the Congress. In the December 2018 elections, Rohith contested on a Congress ticket and defeated Mahender. The MLA returned to the TRS later. Since then, both Mahendar and Rohith have been feuding in public, often making accusations of corruption and neglect of the constituency.
On October 26, the Cyberabad police raided the Tandur MLA’s farmhouse at Moinabad and arrested the three alleged BJP members on charges of trying to lure BRS MLAs Rohith Reddy, G Balraj, Harvardhan Reddy and R Kantha Rao with bribes.
As per the FIR, police received a petition from Rohith Reddy that Ramachandra Bharati and Nanda Kumar met him on September 26 and urged him to resign from the TRS and contest the next election on a BJP ticket. They allegedly offered Rs 100 crore for him, central government contract works, and high central government positions ensuring monetary benefits.
The FIR states that the duo also told the MLA that if he did not join the BJP, he would have to face criminal cases and ED and CBI raids. They also allegedly threatened to topple the Telangana government.
On October 26, they allegedly contacted him again and said they were coming to his farmhouse for negotiations and asked him to mobilise the other BRS MLAs, for each of whom a bribe of Rs 50 crore was allegedly offered to join the BJP.
The FIR also states that the four MLAs were asked not to discharge their duties honestly so that the BRS government would be destabilised.
Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) MLA P Rohith Reddy has alleged that BJP attempted to lure him to resign from Telangana government (Image-Wikipedia) 
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