Congress is doing its best to ensure NDA Vice presidential candidate Venakiah’s name continues to surface for all wrong reasons. Congress leader Jai Ram Ramesh accused the Telangana government for purchasing police vehicles from Venakaiah’s son owned Harsha Toyota and KCR son’s owned Himanshu Toyota without following the due procedure of bidding.
It may be recalled that in order to improve the brand image of Telangana police, the state government procured Innova vehicles in 2014. Congress accused that without following the due process of inviting bids, TS ordered police vehicles worth Rs. 270 crore.
Congress also claimed that in Madhya Pradesh Government allotted 20 acres in Bhopal at throwaway prices to a Trust owned by Venakiah. Ramesh accused that as an act of favouritism by BJP government, the land classified as “residential and forestry” was given permission to operate for “commercial” reasons without full disclosure.
Two days after reports surfaced that, Swarna Bharat Trust was given an exemption of 2 crore rupees secretly by HMDA, another accusation from the past again Venkaiah purposefully surfaced.
Venkaiah said that these allegations were baseless and the car dealership issue has been sorted in Court. He held that that other trusts also got such exemptions from the government. Former Union minister stated that it is preposterous on part of Congress to stoop to such level in view of the Vice Presidential elections.
