Hyderabad: With the Andhra Pradesh government completing a year in power on Monday, an audio tape has surfaced where Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu was allegedly trying to bribe nominated MLA Elvis Stephenson to support his Telugu Desam Party in the Telangana Legislative Council election.
The purported telephonic conversation which gave a new twist to 'cash-for-vote' controversy, the Chief Minister is reportedly telling Stephenson that all commitments will be honoured in return for support during the election.
The Advisor (Communications) to the government Parakala Prabhakar, however, said that the voice is not of the Chief Minister and has called the tape a political conspiracy against the Andhra Pradesh government.
"We can say to the government of Andhra Pradesh is that the conversation is not that of the Chief Minister. We strongly condemned these types of cheap political tricks that have been played· We are going to fight this out Constitutionally, legally and politically," Prabhakar said.
Meanwhile, a case has now been lodged against Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao for allegedly doctoring the audio.
The anti-corruption bureau of Telangana is in the process of questioning TDP MLA Revanth Reddy and two others who have been arrested in cash-for-vote case.
On May 31, the ACB arrested Reddy for allegedly trying to bribe the nominated MLA Elvis Stephenson to vote for TDP nominee in the Telangana Legislative Council election.
Based on a complaint by Stephenson, ACB officials held Revanth Reddy, Sebastian Harry and Uday Simha after they were caught while allegedly handing over Rs 50 lakh to Stephenson.
Earlier, Telangana Home Minister alleged that Naidu is the key person in the issue.
If the audio tapes of Chandra Babu regarding cash for votes are genuine then he must resign.— digvijaya singh (@digvijaya_28) June 8, 2015
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