The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader and daughter of Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao in the excise policy case. poem of Has been summoned to the Delhi office on Friday for questioning. Here Kavita described the ED summons as politically motivated.
K Kavita attacks BJP on ED summons
BRS leader K Kavita said that ED’s summons in the Delhi Excise Policy case is politically motivated. We will take legal recourse. Attacking BJP, he said, this has been the functioning of Bharatiya Janata Party in any election state.
We are not anyone’s B team: K Kavita
BJP On Congress’s allegation of meeting and delay in ED notice, BRS MLC Kavita said, we have not met anyone. We have met only people from Telangana and the country. The people of India have started supporting KCR. He rejected Congress’s claim and said, we are not anyone’s B team. As a team, we are the people of Telangana and we are Indian people.
ED has interrogated K Kavita several times
Kavita has been interrogated several times at the ED headquarters in March. They have to hand over their mobile phones to the federal agency. During its investigation, ED had recorded the statement of Buchibabu, an accountant allegedly associated with Kavita. In his statement, Buchibabu had said that there was political coordination between K Kavita, Chief Minister (Arvind Kejriwal) and Deputy Chief Minister (Manish Sisodia). In that process, K Kavitha also met Vijay Nair on March 19-20, 2021. Kavita has continuously said that she has not done anything wrong. He also accused the Bharatiya Janata Party led Center of using ‘ED’.
#WATCH , It is clearly a politically motivated summons and we will take legal recourse…It has been the modus operandi of the Bharatiya Janata Party in any poll-bound state: BRS MLC K Kavitha on ED summons to her in connection with Delhi Excise policy case pic.twitter.com/VV2byJzydR
— ANI (@ANI) September 14, 2023
What is the excise policy issue?
It is alleged that there were serious flaws in the Delhi government’s excise policy for 2021-22 for granting licenses to liquor traders. The Aam Aadmi Party government of Delhi had completely denied these allegations. Later this excise policy was canceled and the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi recommended an investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). After this, ED had registered a case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. In this case, AAP leader and former Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi Manish Sisodia is still in jail.
K Kavita has also attacked Congress and Rahul Gandhi
Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) leader and Legislative Council member K Kavita has also attacked Congress and Rahul Gandhi. A few days ago, he targeted Rahul and termed him an ‘irrelevant leader’. She further said, I tell the Congress leaders that your Rahul Gandhi is an irrelevant leader. He cannot match KCR’s speed. Describing BRS as an alternative to Congress, K Kavita said that since Rahul Gandhi cannot effectively compete with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BRS has become an alternative to Congress at the national level. Kavita said that she wants to ask the Gandhi family, who is coming here for the CWC meeting to be held on September 16 and 17, whether the promises they are making in Telangana have been implemented in the Congress-ruled states.