CBI should charge ministers too: Muddu

HYDERABAD: The Telugu Desam wants the Central Bureau of Investigation to include all the ministers, who were involved in scams, in its chargesheets.Making this demand, party leader and former minister Gali Muddukrishnama Naidu told reporters here on Thursday that the CBI was sparing Congress ministers and leaders and implicating leaders of other parties. ``When former Union minister A Raja of the DMK was arrested by the CBI in the 2G spectrum allotment case, why not Congress ministers in the state?''The TDP leader recalled that IAS officer Srilakhsmi had testified that she had acted as per the directions given by the then minister P Sabita Indra Reddy while granting mining lease. "The CBI should arrest Sabita, YS Jagan, KVP Ramachandra Rao and Balineni Srinivasa Reddy," he said and demanded that another minister Botcha Satyanarayana be chargesheeted for the Volkswagen scam. Botcha's name was not in the terms of reference in the VW case and there was no question of CBI giving him a clean chit, Naidu claimed. "Botcha's OSD Raghavendra Rao admitted to the CBI of the involvement of Botcha. We will soon circulate the copies of CBI probe on VW," Gali declared.In the Emaar case, ministers Kanna Lakshminarayana and J Geetha Reddy should be included in the chargesheet to be filed by the CBI, he demanded.At another separate press meet, party leaders Byreddy Rajasekhara Reddy and Gorantla Butchaiah Chowdary said that there was no use of chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy constituting an agriculture commission. "So far 18 such committees/commissions have been formed but no one has helped farmers. The latest commission will be no different,'' they said.