K Kavitha’s father K Chandrasekhar Rao is a prominent opposition leader at the Centre.
New Delhi:
Bharat Rashtra Samithi leader and daughter of Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao will be interrogated by the Enforcement Directorate this morning in the Delhi Liquor Policy case. Manish Sisodia has been arrested in this case.
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Ms Kavita was to meet the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday. Citing her hunger strike to be held in Delhi on Friday to demand the introduction of the Women’s Reservation Bill in Parliament, she asked the ED to postpone her questioning till today, which the central agency agreed to.
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Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia is already in ED custody. He was also arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on charges of alleged corruption in formulating Delhi’s new liquor policy, which was later quashed.
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The main focus of the probe into the Delhi liquor policy matter is on an alleged network of middlemen, businessmen and politicians which the central agencies have called the “South Group”.
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The ED alleged that the liquor policy was changed to help companies of the “South Group” and Mr. Sisodia diluted the policy in his favor without any consultation.
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One of the “South Group” people under the radar is Ms. Kavita. His father K Chandrasekhar Rao, popularly known as KCR, is a prominent opposition leader at the Centre. It has accused the BJP-led Center of using central agencies to harass opposition leaders with false cases.
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“In India, there is no difference between Enforcement Directorate summons and (Narendra) Modi’s summons… Now it is a practice wherever elections are held, before the PM, the Enforcement Directorate comes. What can the opposition do? ?Go to the people’s court or the Supreme Court,’ Ms Kavita told NDTV on Friday.
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Her brother and Telangana minister KT Rama Rao also came to Delhi yesterday, a day before his sister was questioned by the ED.
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KCR told party leaders yesterday that he would fight to stop harassment by rival BJP using central agencies, news agency PTI reported. KCR said, “Our struggle will continue till the BJP is thrown out of power in the country.”
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Ms Kavita, 44, has said the BJP is trying to “intimidate my leader”, referring to her father KCR, who is eyeing a third consecutive term in power in the state, where assembly elections are due in a few months. Are.
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During the hearing in Mr. Sisodia’s case yesterday in a Delhi court, his counsel pulled up the ED for treating arrest as a matter of right without due process of law. Sisodia’s lawyer Dayan Krishna said, “These days it has become a fashion that agencies take arrest as their right. It is time the courts come down hard on the spirit of this right.”
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