KTR lashed out Congress leader Jairam Ramesh

Hyderabad, July 26: The Telangana minister IT and Industries KT.Rama Rao has slammed on senior Congress leader and former Union Minister Jairam Ramesh for the latter's comments on alleged irregularities in purchase of vehicles for the State police department.

Mr. Rama Rao said that the Congress leaders, rejected by the people at the State and Central levels, were stooping down to play "cheap politics" to remain in the public glare.

"The Congress is trying to create issues out of non-issues as the party is afraid of survival. Mr. Jairam Ramesh should show the proof of irregularities or tender unconditional apologies for his remarks", he said.

The Minister launched a scathing attack on Mr. Ramesh for claiming that he (Mr. Rama Rao) resorted to irregularities in purchase of vehicles along with NDA's vice-president nominee M. Venkaiah Naidu's son. He strongly refuted the charge that orders were placed through a firm owned by him.



"A tractors stock yard I owned in the past has been closed for the last seven years. I am prepared to transfer the ownership of the firm to Mr. Jairam Ramesh if he can prove that the firm has indulged in any irregularities," he said.

"Orders were placed for SUVs and four-wheelers manufactured by several companies, not restricted to a single brand alone," he said.