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There are scores of Vijay Mallya's in TDP: BJP

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ANI Hyderabad (Telangana) [India]

After Telugu Desam Party (TDP) MP Y S Chowdary was summoned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in alleged bank loan fraud case; Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP GVL Narasimha Rao on Monday said that incident shows that there are number of Vijay Mallya's in Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu's party.

Addressing the media here, Rao said the declarations made by the Enforcement Directorate expose the "corrupt faces of the TDP."

"The scale of this entire scandal runs into Rs 1000 crore. The real corrupt face of the TDP has been exposed from the revelations made by the ED. The scale of this scam is so huge that it seems like; Chandrababu Naidu has so many Mallya's in his team," the BJP leader asserted, adding that Naidu has a number of tax evaders and corrupt people in his party.

 

He further asked the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister to first keep a check on the leaders of his party and then raise fingers on others.

After conducting raids at the offices and residence of Chowdary, ED claimed that the MP's group of companies have defrauded banks to the tune of Rs. 5,700 crore.

However, the senior TDP rejected the allegations made by the ED.

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First Published: Nov 26 2018 | 10:05 PM IST

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