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TDP MPs join BJP: Two MPs face CBI, ED, I-T
probes, BJP had called them ‘Mallyas’
In November last year, BJP MP and spokesperson G V L Narasimha Rao called C M Ramesh
and Y S Chowdary “Andhra Mallyas” and wrote to the Rajya Sabha Ethics Committee, seeking
initiation of “suitable action” against them.
Written by Deeptiman Tiwary | • New Delhi |
Updated: June 21, 2019 7:39:43 am

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Four TDP MPs join BJP fold, NDA is now just 18 short of majority
in Rajya Sabha

TDP MPs Y S Chowdary, C M Ramesh, Garikapati Mohan Rao and T G Venkatesh joined BJP today.
(Twitter/@BJP4India)

C M Ramesh and Y S Chowdary, two of the four TDP Rajya Sabha members who crossed over
to the BJP Thursday, are also industrialists and have been under the scanner of Income Tax,
CBI and Enforcement Directorate.

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company said to be linked to him. Chowdary, on the other hand, has been on the radar of the
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In the past, both have claimed innocence, and denied any wrongdoing. Text messages sent to
them Thursday did not elicit any response.

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Incidentally, in November last year, it was BJP MP and spokesperson G V L Narasimha Rao who
called Chowdary and Ramesh “Andhra Mallyas” and wrote to the Rajya Sabha Ethics
Committee, seeking initiation of “suitable action” against them.

Posting a November 28 letter he had written to the chairman of the Ethics Committee, Rao
tweeted: “I’ve complained to Ethics Committee to seek disquali cation of two TDP MPs, Y.S.
Choudary & C.M.Ramesh who have earned the dubious title of “Andhra Mallyas” with massive
nancial scandals…”.

In October last year, an Income Tax probe found suspicious transactions to the tune of about
Rs 100 crore in a company associated with Ramesh. According to the I-T, the company, Rithwik
Projects Pvt Ltd (RPPL), had allegedly siphoned Rs 74 crore through untraceable transactions,
while bills of Rs 25 crore were found to be “dubious”.

On October 12, the I-T department conducted searches at the premises of the company in
Hyderabad and Ramesh’s residence in Kadapa. The TDP had protested the searches, calling it
political vendetta.

In the CBI tussle between Verma and Asthana, prime witness Sana Sathish Babu, on whose
statement Verma had registered a case of corruption against Asthana, had alleged Ramesh
was in uencing cases. Before implicating Asthana for allegedly demanding a bribe, Babu had
given a statement to Asthana’s team that Verma was demanding a bribe. He had alleged that
Ramesh was the go-between in xing the case against him. Verma’s team and Ramesh had
then denied the charges.

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Chowdary, who was a Minister of State before TDP pulled out of the rst Modi government, is
being probed by the CBI in a set of three FIRs. These FIRs allege that electrical equipment
manufacturer Best and Crompton Engineering Projects Limited (BCEPL), which the CBI claims
is linked to Chowdary, fraudulently obtained loans of over Rs 360 crore from a consortium of
banks and then defaulted.

Based on the CBI FIRs, the ED initiated a money laundering investigation against Chowdary and
attached over Rs 315 crore of his assets. Among the assets seized are high-end cars which
include a Ferrari, a BMW and a Range Rover.

On October 8 last year, the ED conducted searches at residential and o ce premises of key
o cials of BCEPL. “Searches resulted in the recovery and seizure of 126 Rubber Stamps of
various shell companies from the business premises at Plot No.18, Nagarjuna Hills, Punjagutta,
Hyderabad-500082. It was also identi ed that, the above business premises has
accommodated many companies of Sujana Group,” the ED said in a statement.

According to ED, veri cation of documents seized indicated that BCEPL was functioning under
the “Chairmanship of Shri Y.S. Chowdary alias Sujana Chowdary, who is a sitting Member of
Parliament-Rajya Sabha.”

The ED claimed it was probing alleged loan defaults worth Rs 5,700 crore by the Sujana Group
owned by Chowdary — he denied the allegations.

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