HYDERABAD: The issue of Eluru MP Putta Mahesh Kumar and BRS ex-MLA Pilot Rohith Reddy being caught consuming drugs at a farmhouse in Moinabad echoed in the Telangana legislative council on Tuesday. Telangana Congress president B Mahesh Kumar Goud told the house that both chief minister A Revanth Reddy and Leader of the Opposition and former chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, should undergo drug tests. He also wanted all public representatives to be tested as a way of restoring people’s faith in the house.BRS MLC Dasoju Sravan then hit back at Goud, stating all the BRS legislators were ready for a drug test on Wednesday itself if a medical camp was organised. He found fault with Goud for taking the names of KCR and KT Rama Rao and said, “We will drag you to court if you drag their names (into the issue),” he said.
Participating in the motion of thanks after the governor’s address, Goud said teachers, professors and parents were worried about their children after public representatives were caught consuming drugs in a farmhouse in Moinabad on Saturday (March 14).“It is an absolute tragedy that individuals holding high office, those who should serve as e models for society, have fallen prey to drugs,” he said. “During the nine years of the BRS govt, the drug mafia operated unchecked. Drugs were sold like chocolates and biscuits. There was a former MLA from the BRS and a sitting MP from the TDP who were arrested in the raid at Moinabad and tested positive for drugs,” he said.‘No political targeting’The TPCC president offered to convince Revanth to be the first to be tested and threw a challenge at the BRS benches in the council to bring KCR for the same.“Yes, let us fix the muhurtham tomorrow itself. Let the leader of the house and leader of the opposition in the assembly first undergo tests. Then every public representative who was given B-form should undergo the test,” Goud said.Stating that the Revanthled Congress govt had constituted a specialised team, Eagle, to make Telangana a drugfree state, the TPCC chief asked the BRS members not to see the issue as a form of political targeting.
