IT Raids Premises Linked To Telangana Education Minister’s Relatives

The Income Tax officials on Monday conducted searches on the residence of Telangana Minister Sabitha Indra Reddy’s relatives in Hyderabad ahead of the Telangana assembly polls.

She has been the Minister for Education of Telangana since year 2019. The Income Tax sleuths searched the residence of Pradeep (a close relative of the minister).

In 2018, Reddy contested elections from Mahehswaram on a Congress ticket and won in spite of a TRS wave in the state. Subsequently, she moved to TRS and was made Minister of Education in the KCR cabinet.

Sabitha Reddy is the TRS candidate from the seat of Maheshwaram in the 2023 Assembly elections. She will be up against Kitchannagari Laxma Reddy of the Congress and Andela Sri Ramulu Yadav of the BJP in the constituency.

Currently, the officials are conducting raids at a pharmaceutical company in Hyderabad and are also carrying out searches at 15 different locations across the city.

Earlier on November 9, officials stated that the Income Tax officials conducted raids on the residence of Congress leader Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy in Telangana’s Khammam district.

Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy is contesting the November 30 polls from the Palair constituency in Khammam district.

Telangana will go to assembly elections on November 30 and counting of votes, along with those of 4 other poll-bound states, has been scheduled for December 3.

Previously, in the Assembly election in the state in 2018, the Bharat Rashtra Samithi, previously known as Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), won 88 of the 119 seats, hogging 47.4% of the total vote share. The Congress came in a distant second with just 19 seats.