Janardhan Reddy warns Nagendra against blaming BJP for his arrest
The Hindu
G. Janardhan Reddy warns B. Nagendra not to blame BJP for his arrest, threatens more revelations.
Reacting sharply to the former Minister B. Nagendra’s statement that mining baron G. Jarandhan Reddy was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on the directions of the BJP, Mr. Reddy warned the former not to play smart and blame BJP for his arrest.
“More skeletons will tumble out of the closet if Mr. Nagendra tries to play smart with me,” Mr. Reddy categorically warned him.
Addressing a press conference at the BJP office in Ballari on Thursday, Mr. Reddy said that Mr. Nagendra should not forget that several leaders, including Anil Lad, Anand Singh, T.H. Suresh Babu and Satish Sail, were also arrested by the CBI during the then UPA-led government at the Centre.
Mr. Reddy warned Nagendra not to speak nonsense just to get inducted into the Cabinet again.
The Enforcement Directorate has, in its charge sheet, mentioned that funds siphoned off from the Karnataka Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation by Mr. Nagendra were used for elections and personal expenses, including flight bookings and to pay electricity bills of his residence.
As much as ₹14.80 crore from the Valmiki Corporation have been used for the Lok Sabha elections by three legislators, including Nara Bharath Reddy, Ganesh and K.S Srinivas.
A sum of ₹10,000 was distributed to each Congress worker and, in all, ₹20 crore was utilised from the Valmiki Corporation for the recent Lok Sabha polls, he said.
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