YSRC ministers to be dragged into legal battle

HYDERABAD: The Opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) has decided to drag eight cabinet ministers of the YS Rajasekhara Reddy government and also the then cabinet subcommittee members K Rosaiah, Botcha Satyanarayana and J Geetha Reddy in the legal battle against the CBI probe.
The projects mentioned in the petition filed by YSR Congress honorary president YS Vijayamma in the High Court seeking a CBI probe into the 'riches' of former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu, were later approved by YSR as chief minister who doled out several sops to the companies. In fact, YSR had cleared 98 per cent of mega projects sanctioned by the TDP government and took a huge amount of money from promoters. Later, he shared it with AICC president Sonia Gandhi, TDP leaders alleged at a regular press briefing on Saturday. If Vijayamma wanted an investigation into the projects sanctioned by former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu, then YSR cabinet ministers and members of the cabinet subcommittee who cleared the projects, should also be questioned in this connection, the TDP leaders said.TDP senior leaders Yanamala Ramakrishnudu, K Yerran Naidu and Dadi Veerabhadra Rao recalled that as an Opposition leader YSR made serious allegations against Naidu for sanctioning 64 mega projects. After coming to power, YSR cleared 98 per cent of the projects.