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โ€œAm I Doing Hawala Business?,โ€ Asks Telangana Minister After IT Raids At His Premises

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Telangana labour minister Malla Reddy on Wednesday attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party and Prime Minister Narendra Modi government for โ€œdeploying Income Tax officers to create terrorโ€.

Hyderabad:  Telangana labour minister Malla Reddy on Wednesday attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party and Prime Minister Narendra Modi government for โ€œdeploying Income Tax officers to create terrorโ€.

โ€œAm I doing hawala business? With K Chandrashekar Raoโ€™s blessings, we serve people. Is it wrong? BJP and Modi government are deploying IT officers to 50 different places and houses to create terror,โ€ Reddy said a day after the Income Tax department conducted raids at the properties belonging to him and his son-in-law.

Income Tax officials had conducted raids at various locations including the residence of State minister Malla Reddy in Secunderabad on Tuesday.

Reddy further alleged the Central Reserve Police Force had ruthlessly beat up his elder son. โ€œMy elder son is in pain due to the beatings of CRPF.โ€ Later, addressing media persons, Reddy said that the raids were a โ€œdeliberate attemptโ€ on KCR and ministers of TRS.

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โ€œI am a TRS minister. They are doing this purposefully on KCR and our ministers,โ€ Reddy said. Earlier on November 9, the sleuths of the Enforcement Directorate raided the residence of Telangana minister Gangula Kamalakar in Karimnagar in connection with an alleged illegal mining case.

โ€œED officials have checked everything and went through all the documents, we will let the agencies investigate. We are cooperating with the government,โ€ Gangula Kamalakar said on November 10.

ED attached the properties under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act 2002 (PMLA) after conducting investigations on the basis of an FIR and charge sheet filed by Tamil Nadu Police against the said company for โ€œcriminally conspiring and indulging in illegal granite mining activities leading to losses to the government and wrongful gain to themselves,โ€ a statement from the ED said on April 24, 2019.

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โ€œWill Contest And Get Villages Legallyโ€: Fadnavis Over Maharashtra-Karnataka Border Dispute

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Devendra Fadnavis

Fadnavis added, โ€œWe will fight for our stand within the legal frame work in the Supreme Courtโ€

Mumbai: The Maharashtra-Karnataka border issue has been rife for the last several years. Currently, it is seen that more has been added to this quarter. Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has said that โ€œJat taluka of Sangli district of Maharashtra is seriously considering to be included in Karnatakaโ€. Bommaiโ€™s statement has caused a political earthquake in Maharashtra. Maharashtra Deputy CM that the state will fight and legally get all the villages.

Speaking with reporters Fadnavis said that the state will fight and get Marathi-speaking villages. He said, โ€œNot a single Maharashtra village will go to Karnataka. The state government will take the fight to get Marathi-speaking villages including Belgaum-Karwar-Nipani too to our state.โ€

Recently, 40 drought-affected villages in Jat taluka of Sangli passed a resolution to join Karnataka. After this, it is seen that the Karnataka government has started moving rapidly to bring the villages of Jat taluka to their state. In this background, Basavaraj Bommai said, โ€œJat taluka in Sangli is suffering from drought and severe water scarcity. We have helped these villages by providing water. 40 villages of this taluka have decided to join Karnataka. We are seriously considering the resolution taken by these villages and through the Border Development Authority, we will provide grants to Kannada schools in Maharashtra.โ€

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Maharashtra cabinet minister Shambhuraj Desai on Wednesday said that Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommaiโ€™s claims over the border dispute should not be taken seriously.

NCP Leader Ajit Pawar is demanding clarification from the Chief Minister and deputy CM over Karnataka CM Basavraj Bommaiโ€™s claims that villages in Jat tehsil of Sangli were a part of Karnataka.

Fadnavis while speaking with reporters said, โ€œThe Jat resolution discussed was passed in 2012. It is an old proposal. We have not received any new proposal from Karnataka.โ€

Fadnavis added, โ€œWe will fight for our stand within the legal frame work in the Supreme Court.โ€

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