Phones of all MLAs, MPs of Telangana tapped by private hackers at CM’s behest, allege BRS leaders

HYDERABAD

The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has alleged that Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy is getting the phones of 118 MLAs, 40 MLCs and 23 MPs and other leaders of the State as also the celebrities in different fields tapped with the help of private hackers with ulterior motives.

Even the phones of those who had come to participate in the Miss World Pageant were tapped, BRS MLAs MLAs Padi Kaushik Reddy and Dr. K. Sanjay said, addressing a press conference here on Friday. Stating that Mr. Revanth Reddy himself had said in an informal chat with newspersons in New Delhi on Thursday that phone tapping would be done by the police officials, they said he had also admitted before his Cabinet colleagues that phone tapping was being done as it was required to know what was going on as the head of the government.

Demanding CBI and ED inquiries into phone tapping being done at the behest of the Chief Minister, the BRS leaders sought to know why Mr. Revanth Reddy had been indulging in mudslinging in the name of phone tapping on KCR (former Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao), KTR (K.T. Rama Rao) and T. Harish Rao, who had never indulged in phone tapping.

Mr. Kaushik Reddy alleged that he had complained to the police on December 5 last that his and his wife’s phones were being tapped, but no case had been registered so far.