The summons issued by the special investigation team of Hyderabad police to Bharat Rashtra Samithi president and former chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao for questioning in connection with the alleged phone tapping case evoked different reactions form his son K T Rama Rao and daughter K Kavitha.
KTR, who is also BRS working president accused the Congress government of targeting KCR out of political malice.
Taking to social media platform X, KTR alleged that the Congress government was using investigations as a distraction from its failures to implement pre-election promises.
“This is not an inquiry, it is revenge. This is not justice, it is political conspiracy,” KTR said, adding that notices and intimidation cannot erase Telangana’s history or the legacy of the statehood movement.
KTR described KCR as a historic leader who fought tirelessly to achieve Telangana statehood and later implemented landmark welfare and development programmes.
The BRS, he asserted, would continue its fight against what it termed “vindictive politics” and stand firmly with the people of Telangana.
Kavitha, however, expressed hope that KCR will attend the interrogation by the SIT.
“KCR garu has been summoned by the SIT today, and I am certain he will appear before the investigating agency and present his side of the story,” she said.
Kavitha, however, said the phone tapping issue is being deliberately projected as a diversion by the chief minister A Revanth Reddy.
The matter has been known to the authorities for the past two years, yet the investigation has consistently failed to reflect the seriousness of the offence.
Kavitha stated that illegal phone tapping is a grave violation of democratic rights and personal liberty, and if the government genuinely acknowledges that such surveillance occurred, the probe should have been far more rigorous from the beginning.
“For the last two years, the SIT has been aware of this issue. However, we have not witnessed the kind of serious, focused investigation that such a serious matter demands,” she said.
Kavitha stressed that credibility of the investigation depends entirely on transparency and fairness.
“Only a transparent and unbiased probe will ensure justice to those who were subjected to this unlawful surveillance. Anything less will raise serious questions about intent,” she asserted.