Senior leader of Bharat Rashtra Samithi and daughter of Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, K Kavitha is set to be questioned by Enforcement Directorate today regarding the alleged Delhi liquor policy.
Her supporters have accumulated outside Mr Rao’s residence in country’s capital.
On Friday, she had launched a hunger strike demanding introduction of Women’s Reservation Bill in the Parliament, which the Modi government had proposed long back, she alleged. 12 other parties had also joined in the protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar.
The BRS leader had arrived Delhi on March 8 after ED summoned her for questioning.
As per the sources, Ms Kavitha will be facing Hyderabad based businessman Arun Ramchandra Pillai during the questioning, who was arrested in connection with the liquor policy in question.
Meanwhile, the BRS leader has alleged the centre calling it all as “tactics of intimidation” against her party and Mr Rao. However, she challenged that her party will continue fighting against such evils and will bring the failures of Central government in the lime light.
As soon after ED issued summon to Ms Kavitha, BRS took a dig out at the Centre saying that the central agencies have become the strong arms of BJP.
In its probe, ED has discovered that Mr Pillai is ome of the significant name involved in payments of huge amount and is behind the formation of biggest South Group cartel.
The people involved in the South Group cartel include Kavitha, Magunga Srinivasulu Reddy, Sarath Reddy among others.
In December last year, Ms Kavitha was also questioned by CBI in the same case. She is also a member of Telangana Legislative Council.
The alleged excise policy was ordered by Delhi Cabinet led by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in 2021, during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Senior AAP leader Manish Sisodia has also been arrested in the same case.
