Ministers Clamour to Get GOs Scrapped
posted on Jun 4, 2012 @ 12:24PM
With the Brahmani Steels GO scrapped, five other ministers connected to some of the 26 controversial GOs are hopeful that they too will get relief if the government chooses also to cancel the other GOs. The scrapping the GO pertaining to Brahmani Steels belonging to Gali Janardhan Reddy came as a great relief to then Industries Minister Geeta reddy. The other ministers too said have asked the chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy to cancel the other GOs too.
The government had recently issued orders scrapping GO No. 477 pertaining to Brahmani Steels, one of the controversial ones listed by advocate P. Sudhakar Reddy in his SLP in the Supreme Court. The ministers are in a quandary as the CBI in its affidavit in the SC has stated that it has to probe the ministers' roles in clearing some of the GOs. Sources said that a minister had even visited New Delhi to lobby for help from key members of the Congress. The then mines minister P. Sabita Indra Reddy, Ponnala Lakshmaiah, who handled the irrigation portfolio, and the then revenue minister Dharmana Prasada Rao, have asked the state to cancel the GOs they issued, if any irregularities were found in them.
According to sources, the CM, was however confident that no more arrests would take place and told them that these decisions were taken in Delhi. The sources said that the direction to cancel the Brahmani Steels GO had come from the Centre. In its affidavit filed in the SC, the CBI has already cleared four government orders including those approved by the then ministers Kanna Lakshminarayana and Koneru Ranga Rao.