Ahead of the Munugode by-election, Cyberabad police on Wednesday raided a farmhouse in Aziz Nagar on the outskirts of Hyderabad, and detained three people on charges of trying to lure four TRS MLAs with huge sums of money and important positions and posts. .
Raids were conducted late in the evening and police force reached the spot.
Cyberabad Police Commissioner Stephen Ravindra while talking to the media said that the accused had come to Hyderabad from Delhi. The main accused has been identified as Ramchandra Bharti (33) alias Satish Sharma. Mr Ravindra said he is a cleric attached to a temple in Faridabad, and is living in the national capital. The others are D. Simhayaji (45), a Peethadipati from Tirupati and Nandkumar (48), a businessman from Saroornagar.
Mr. Stephen Ravindra, who visited the farmhouse at Aziznagar in Moinabad mandal in Ranga Reddy, said that the police had received information from ruling party legislators that some unidentified religious leaders were trying to promise them huge cash and contracts . City based hotelier.
Four MLAs – Guvwala Balaraju (Achampet), Rega Kantha Rao (Pinapaka), Biram Harshvardhan Reddy (Kollapur) and Panjugula Rohit Reddy (Tandur) are seated in the company of two saints from Faridabad in scenes aired on television channels. Ramachandra Bharati alias Satish Sharma, Simhayajulu (Tirupati) and Nanda Kumar, a hotelier from the city.
Curiously, Kantha Rao, Harshvardhan Reddy and Rohit Reddy had won the last election on Congress ticket and joined TRS. It is learned that the police raided the farmhouse and apprehended Swamiji and another person. It is believed that a huge amount of cash was also recovered from the farm house.
Three MLAs- Balaraju, Rega Kantha Rao and Harshvardhan Reddy reached Pragati Bhavan, the chief minister’s camp office, directly from the farm house. Mr. Rohit Reddy later joined them at the camp office after lodging a complaint at the Moinabad police station. The three accused were brought to the Moinabad police station amid tight security.
Protesting a conspiracy by the BJP to woo its MLAs, TRS ministers – Gangula Kamalakar, A Indrakaran Reddy and V. Srinivasa Goud, staged a flash dharna at Chautuappal to stop vehicular traffic on NH-65 Hyderabad-Vijayawada.
While leaving the farmhouse in a vehicle, Mr. Guvwala Balaraju said that the TRS leader would not give in to the greed of money. Without naming any political party, he said, “We have exposed the conspiracy to buy us through money.” “We are the foot soldiers of KCR and will not be misled by money,” he said, avoiding any further information. Mr. Kantha Rao said that they reached the farm house around 5 pm
Meanwhile, security arrangements around Pragati Bhavan were beefed up on Wednesday night, perhaps in anticipation of the protests and not to take any further risks.