Bhumana sticks to his stand on Parakamani case, calls for CBI probe

YSR Congress Party State official spokesperson and Chittoor district president Bhumana Karunakar Reddy upped the ante towards the ruling NDA Alliance authorities by demanding a CBI probe into the ‘Parakamani rip-off’ that rocked the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) two years again.

Even as two TTD Trust Board members, representing the NDA Alliance authorities, appeared to have had the final giggle on Saturday with the discharge of a surveillance CCTV footage, which has been termed as a ‘sensational expose’ of the Parakamani rip-off, Mr. Karunakar Reddy vowed to cut his head off at Alipiri, the foot of Tirumala hills, if the ruling alliance proved its allegation. In the identical vein, he demanded a public apology from them if they might not show his involvement in the complete challenge.

Addressing a media convention right here on Sunday (September 21), Mr. Reddy squarely blamed the Minister for Education Nara Lokesh and TTD Chairman B.R. Naidu of unnecessarily dragging his title into the rip-off, recalling that accused C. Ravi Kumar was caught stealing foreign money notes on April 29, 2023, when he was not the Trust Board chairman.

“The accused has admitted to have been stealing foreign money notes during the last 20 years, which additionally concurs with the interval of TDP rule beneath Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu. Why did his authorities not unearth the rip-off throughout his rule?” he countered.

Brushing apart the cost that the Trust Board shaped beneath the YSRCP Government had compromised with the accused, Mr. Reddy questioned why would they catch the accused red-handed in the event that they have been to strike a take care of him. As the members of the family turned repentant and refused to personal the property gained by way of sinful means, they volunteered to register the landed properties value ₹14 crore within the title of the TTD, which was accepted by way of a Board decision, Mr. Reddy defined.

“Is there any such occasion of recovering stolen property within the TTD’s historical past? Instead of hailing our choice, the federal government is resorting to mudslinging,” he rued.

Mr. Karunakar Reddy dared the federal government handy over the case to the CBI, and never the CB-CID functioning beneath its management, to convey the unfastened ends within the case to gentle.