A legal team on behalf of Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy appeared before the officials of Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations (IFSO), Special Cell, Delhi in connection with a case of doctored video of Union Home Minister Amit Shah. Revanth Reddy, who is in the election campaign, sent his legal team, which sought four more weeks time to give their replies.
It may be recalled here that on April 29, the IFSO team, which visited Gandhi Bhavan, the headquarter of State Congress in Hyderabad, summoned Revanth Reddy and five other Congress leaders for allegedly morphing and circulating the video of Amit Shah’s statement on reservations.
The video, in which the Union Home Minister was portrayed, had him say that the BJP would scrap reservations to SC, ST and OBCs.
Responding to the summons, Revanth Reddy said at an election meeting in Korutla in Jagtial district that: “Whether cases will be foisted, when I wanted to implement reservations to SC, ST and OBCs? The Delhi police wanted me to come to them. How can I stop my election campaign and go to the police station? What is this injustice Amit Shah?,” asked the CM.
Both Narendra Modi and Amit Shah bore grudge against him and registered a case in Delhi for seeking reservations. But, he warned that he is not scared of cases.
He recalled that the then Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao sent him to jail, but the Congress defeated him later. “I will not cow down, even if the BJP used I-T, CBI, ED and Delhi Police. I have four crore Telangana people with me,” thundered Revanth.
Earlier, the Telangana unit of the BJP lodged a complaint against Chief Minister Reddy and the state chief of the Congress party at the Cyber Crime police station. The complaint alleged that the Congress party had manipulated and altered a speech by Amit Shah.
According to the complaint, the official handle of the Telangana Pradesh Congress Party shared a video of Amit Shah that was allegedly doctored and fabricated.