The Telangana High Court, on Thursday, disposed of the writ petition filed by BRS after the Election Commission of India (ECI) said that it would decide by Friday on the complaint to restrain all political parties and leaders from making remarks against BRS and its leaders linking them with the phone-tapping case.
ECI’s standing counsel Avinash Desai informed the Bench of Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice Anil Kumar Jukanti, which heard the petition, that it would take a call on the BRS petition to act upon political leaders making defamatory remarks against BRS leaders linking the latter with the ongoing case.
The petitioner’s counsel told the Bench that on March 29, Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy made a statement linking BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao with the case. The advocate stated that Congress MLA Yennam Srinivas Reddy and leader K.K. Mahender Reddy and BJP leaders, including Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy, made defamatory statements alleging that K.T. Rama Rao was involved in phone-tapping.
The council said that BJP Telangana’s ‘X’ (formerly Twitter) handle posted a video in which the lyrics of the song allege the consumption of drugs by BRS working president. He also cited the statements made by Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Konda Surekha stating that he was involved in phone-tapping.
