Hyderabad: BRS MLC Kavitha accused former Irrigation Minister Harish Rao of being responsible for the CBI probe against her father KCR. Kavitha accused Harish Rao’s corruption in Kaleshwaram project as Irrigation Minister caused to CBI probe against KCR.

Kavitha in her address on Monday who returned from US this morning made a series of claims, that the stain of corruption on KCR’s name was a result of the actions of those close to him.

She alleged and blamed Harish Rao and former Rajya Sabha MP Santosh Kumar accumulated assets and colluded with CM Revanth Reddy to tarnish KCR’s image. She also said that we have to think about why the taint of corruption came to KCR. Some who are close to KCR have benefited in many ways by making use of his name. KCR’s name is getting defamed today because of their misdeeds. Did Harish Rao, who was irrigation minister for five years, not have a major role in this?

She alleged that Revanth Reddy was protecting Harish Rao and Santosh Kumar, suggesting they were hand-in-glove to target KCR. KCR would emerge as pure as a pearl from the CBI inquiry, and added it hurts as his daughter to see him face this ordeal, she added.

She also claimed that Harish Rao’s removal from the irrigation portfolio in the second term of the BRS Government in 2018 was a consequence of the alleged irregularities.

Telangana Assembly’s decision to hand over the Justice PC Ghose Commission report to the CBI for further probe follows a marathon debate on the 650-page report, which was tabled in the house on Saturday.