Kerala: CMRL MD skips ED summons
The CMRL is facing money laundering charges for allegedly paying Rs 1.72 crore to Exalogic Solutions, a firm owned by the Chief Minister's daughter Veena Vijayan without availing any services.
BRS MLC Kalvakuntla Kavitha is set to hold a roundtable conference in New Delhi on the Women’s Reservation Bill on 15 March, a day before she is slated to appear before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for the second round of interrogation in the Delhi liquor scam case.
The roundtable conference is being held after a day-long hunger strike held on the same issue at Jantar Mantar which was attended by a number of Opposition parties including some of those who had been against the Bill in the past. However, the Congress chose to stay away from Kavitha’s protest despite being invited.
According to a statement issued by her office Bharat Jagruthi, the cultural wing of the BRS headed by Kavitha will hold the roundtable at Hotel Le Meridien, New Delhi on 15 March between 3pm and 5pm with the representatives of various political parties, civil societies, women’s organisation and other national organisations.
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The ED, which had interrogated Kavitha for nine hours on 11 March, has again summoned her on 16 March. She was also asked to submit her phone. On the same night, she returned to Hyderabad by a special flight accompanied by her brother KT Rama Rao and other ministers of the BRS Cabinet and went to Pragathi Bhavan to brief her father, chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao.
Kavitha and the BRS have ascribed the interrogation by the Central probe agencies prior to elections in Telangana to a political vendetta.
Meanwhile, the local BJP leaders have said Kavitha’s arrest is imminent and would take place before Ugadi, the Telugu New Year which falls in the last week of March. The BJP has slammed her protests for the implementation of Women’s Reservation Bill as a diversionary tactic aimed to deflect attention from the Delhi Liquor Scam. According to the ED, Kavitha headed the South cartel which paid Rs100 crore as kickbacks to the AAP government in Delhi for a favourable policy.
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