What did KCR’s daughter Kavita say about being named in the liquor ‘scam’ in Delhi?

Hyderabad:

Telangana MLA Kavitha, who was named by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday in a court filing on its probe into the scrapped Delhi liquor policy, today hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying no In every state where elections are to be held, the Enforcement Directorate reaches before the PM.

,Child child is public, ED comes before Modi (Every child knows, ED comes before Modi),” she said, challenging PM Modi to put him in jail if he wanted to.

Without going into the specifics of the charges against her, Kavita said the ED and CBI cases against her party’s Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) leaders are “low-level politics”.

“You cannot win elections using your central agencies,” he said. He alleged that the BJP has “destabilized nine states in eight years”.

He accused the BJP of hatching a conspiracy to destabilize the KCR-led state government and using central agencies to defame him.

Ms Kavita, however, said she “welcomes” the central agencies and will cooperate with them.

The central probe agency, citing the statements of an arrested Gurugram-based businessman Amit Arora, has claimed that Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s daughter Kavitha was a key member of the “South Group” which paid politicians at least Rs 100 crore. was. Delhi’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) through another arrested businessman Vijay Nair…

K Kavita’s name has cropped up in a remand report filed by the Enforcement Directorate citing statements of Amit Arora, an arrested Gurugram-based businessman.

The central agency claimed Ms Kavita was a key member of the “South Group” which paid at least Rs 100 crore to leaders of Delhi’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) through another arrested businessman Vijay Nair .

“As per the investigation conducted so far, Shri Vijay Nair has received a bribe of Rs 100 crore on behalf of AAP leaders from at least one group called South Group (controlled by Shri Sarath Reddy, Ms K Kavitha , Mr. Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy) by various persons including Amit Arora. The ED said that the arrested Mr. Amit Arora has disclosed this in his statements.

ED has also arrested Sarath Reddy in the liquor policy case. Amit Arora is the director of liquor manufacturing company Buddy Retail.

The remand report states that Delhi’s liquor policy was allegedly intended to prevent cartelization and encourage fair trade practices, but allegedly promoted cartelization through a backdoor.

Ms Kavita’s name figures in the remand report of Amit Arora, the sixth person arrested in the case. The phone numbers linked to them have been given in the report, sources said. The agency has alleged 10 phone calls made by Amit Arora to Kavita on two numbers in 2021 and 2022, the agency has alleged that the TRS leader changed 10 devices to destroy evidence.

The 36 accused are said to have used 170 phones destroyed in the alleged scam.

The ED had allegedly used the controversial liquor policy as a tool to generate illegal money, claiming that the policy would have allegedly caused losses to the exchequer.

This allegedly allowed huge wholesale (12%) and huge retail (185%) profit margins and encouraged illegal activities. The ED has said that 12 per cent profit margin to wholesalers was allegedly prepared to extract half as kickbacks to AAP leaders.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, his deputy Manish Sisodia and the AAP have rejected allegations of impropriety and called the allegations a vendetta by the BJP, which controls the government and agencies such as the ED and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). .

The BJP is also at war with Telangana Chief Minister KCR, who has launched an all-out attack on the party as he prepares to enter national politics.