Ahead of elections, I-T searches at residences, offices of Congress candidate

Ahead of November 30 assembly polls the Income Tax department officials Thursday carried out searches at the residences and offices of Congress candidate P Srinivas Reddy in Hyderabad and in KhammamReddy is contesting from Palair assembly segment in Khammam District and was scheduled to file his nomination papers today Followers of the Congress leader raised slogans protesting the searches in KhammamTalking to mediapersons Reddy said searches began at 505 AM by hundreds of officials with the help of police I know that this kind of searches will be carried out against me These searches are being carried out on the advice of BRS which is BJPs B Team I said the same thing in my Yesterdays press conference I wanted to file nomination today Deliberately in order to create fear psychosis among the party workers they are carrying out searches he saidHe alleged that the BRS is the B Team of BJP and that the searches were being conducted at the ruling partys behestThe Congress leader at a press conference on Wednesday indicated that the Central agencies such as Income Tax Department and Enforcement Directorate may conduct raids aiming at himReddy alleged that during the past several days the Central agencies were focusing their searches on Congress leadersThe ruling BRS government in Telangana and BJP colluded in the attacks on Congress party leaders he further alleged I request all my followers not to resort to any activity as they Central agencies may trouble me and my companies also Reddy had saidLast week IT officials searched the residences of K Laxma Reddy Maheshwaram assembly segment Congress candidate and Badangpet Municipal Corporation Mayor Chigurintha Parijata Narasimha ReddyMeanwhile Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao Thursday filed nominations from Kamareddy and Gajwel assembly constituenciesAlso read Mumbai Crime CA gets dirt instead of dirt cheap goldAccompanied by sitting Kamareddy MLA Gampa Govardhan and other party leaders Rao submitted his nomination at the office of the returning officer in Kamareddy official sources saidEarlier in the day the chief minister also filed his nomination from Gajwel which he is representing in the outgoing assemblyKamareddy is set to witness an exciting contest as the Congress has fielded state Congress president A Revanth Reddy as its candidate from the constituency to take on KCRBJP MLA Eatala Rajender a former BRS leader is taking on KCR in Gajwel while Congress has fielded Thumkunta Narsa Reddy as its nominee in the constituencyBRS Working President and KCRs son K T Rama Rao filed his nomination from Sircilla which he currently represents in the assemblyState Finance and Health Minister T Harish Rao a nephew of KCR submitted his nomination from Siddipet and Congress Legislature Party CLP leader Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka filed his nomination from MadhiraMany other candidates of all parties filed their nominations on Thursday as it is believed to be an auspicious dayPolling for the 119member Telangana assembly would be held on November 30 and the counting of votes would be taken up on December 3 With inputs from PTI