Even though the BRS leaders raised a stink after the SIT pasted a notice at his Nandinagar residence in Banjara Hills, Rao, popularly known as KCR, wrote a six-page-long letter to the investigators, agreeing to appear before them at 3 pm tomorrow.
The BRS president also requested the SIT to conduct the questioning in his farmhouse in the Medak district instead of Hyderabad.
The BRS, however, has alleged that the notice was issued just after they approached Governor Jishnu Dev Varma for an inquiry into the alleged coal scam, accusing the Congress government of attempting to distract people with the notice to Rao.
Former Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and former minister T Harish Rao have separately filed writ petitions in the High Court seeking to restrain the state government from acting on the inquiry commission report led by retired Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghosh.
Former Telangana chief minister and BRS supremo K Chandrasekhar Rao, who had been lying low for quite some time, sounded a warning for the Congress government led by Revanth Reddy on Friday exhorting his party leaders and activists to be ready for a direct action.
Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, on Friday, predicted that the BRS would soon merge with the BJP and party chief K Chandrasekhar Rao will be appointed a governor, his son and former industry minister KT Rama Rao will be inducted in the Union Cabinet.
The Election Commission of India has sought an explanation by 18 April from former chief minister and BRS supremo K Chandrasekhar Rao for his derogatory comments against the Congress government in Telangana violating the Model Code of Conduct.
What's more, the new ruling dispensation in the state has announced the adoption of a new state anthem reflecting Telangana pride, identity and its long struggle for statehood.
Rao, also known as KCR, was unable to take oath with other MLAs in December last as he underwent a hip replacement surgery following a fall at his farm house.
Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan on Friday called the 10-year-long reign of the previous BRS government led by K Chandrasekhar Rao in the state as one of "repression and financial indiscipline".
