BJP MP Sujana Chowdary has been under a look out notice relating to a bank fraud case. Following this, he was stopped at Delhi airport and not allowed to board the flight to go to the US. As a result, the MP had to cancel his tour plans and had to stay back. Immediately, he approached the Telangana High Court.
After hearing the arguments, the court has granted a two-week relief to the BJP MP to go abroad. Sujana is again making his plans to visit New York. Sujana Chowdary’s advocate told the court that the immigration officials illegally prevented him from going to the US.
Actually, the BJP MP petitioned the court for cancelling the look out notices against him. However, the court did not consider his plea but it has given relief.
Sujana Chowdary has been facing charges of defaulting payment of over Rs. 400 Cr to the Bank of India. The bank has also moved to auction property of the MP. It has already seized some luxury cars belonging to him. It may be recalled that the CBI has raided Sujana’s offices in the past.

Today, Somu Veerraju took charge as party president of Andhra Pradesh. The meeting was attended by BJP strategist Ram Madhav, Kanna Laxmi Narayana, former president of AP BJP, former Union minister Purandhareswari, etc. But one person who was conspicuous by his absence at the event was another former Union minister Sujana Chowdary. This led to debate in political circles. Details as below.

Recently, there have been rumours that Sujana Chowdary comments regarding Amravati did not go well not only with Somu Veerraju but also with some big wigs of the party. It is known news that Somu Veerraju expressed different opinion than Sujana Chowdary later and the party endorsed the stand of Somu Veerraju. All this led to rumours whether Sujana Chowdary is sidelined by the party. On another note, recently Somu Veerraju has been taking firm anti- TDP stand and at this moment it is not clear whether this has any relation to absence of Sujana Chowdary to the party event.

We will have to wait and see if Sujana Chowdary comments on this and explains his absence.

As YSCP leaders cried foul over what they called a secret meeting between Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar and BJP leaders, Rajya Sabha MP Sujana Chowdary clarified that there was nothing secret about their meeting.

Sujana Chowdary stated that there was nothing wrong in meeting Ramesh Kumar. “It was a casual meeting. I have been staying in Park Hyatt for some days. I keep meeting political leaders and businessmen. I don’t know why YSRCP leaders are making a hue and cry over the CCTV footage. Ramesh Kumar is not a criminal. Being close friends, we can meet whenever we want and wherever we want. There is no rule that bars us from meeting each other. I don’t need to meet anyone secretly to conduct. Meeting people is part of my daily routine and business.”

Earlier, Sujana Chowdhary strongly opposed the removal of Ramesh Kumar as SEC and hailed the Andhra Pradesh High Court’s directive to the Andhra Pradesh government to reinstate Ramesh Kumar.

“Jagan had brought shame to the AP government and dragged the prestige of the state to the streets. Where was the necessity to bring an amendment through the back-door (in the form of an ordinance) to change the term and eligibility of the SEC? The Jagan government received a massive mandate of 151 seats in the Assembly. The strong mandate was not given to disregard the constitutional framework and democratic norms. It is high time Jagan realised that his government should work within the constitutional framework and that his government cannot stretch beyond its limitations and should uphold the dignity of judiciary. He should come out of his monarch mindset and focus on the welfare of the state. At least now, he should put politics aside and seriously work towards putting the wheels of the economy on the right path,” Sujana Chowdary had advised.

In an act of political vendetta, Ramesh Kumar was removed as SEC after he put off civic body polls citing Coronavirus. The Andhra Pradesh government promulgated an ordinance which had cut short the tenure of SEC to three years from five years and in a tearing hurry appointed former Tamil Nadu judge Kangaraju as SEC.

The move was challenged in the AP High Court which had reinstated Ramesh Kumar as SEC. On it’s part, the Jagan government had filed a Special Leave Petition in the Supreme Court which had observed that the government cannot play with constitutional functionaries while turning down the plea to stay HC order reinstating Ramesh Kumar. Currently, the case is pending in the SC.

Earlier in the day, TDP politburo member Varla Ramaiah on Tuesday stated that there was nothing wrong if Ramesh Kumar met BJP RS member Sujana Chowdary and former minister Kamineni Srinivas at Park Hyatt in Hyderabad. “Is Sujana Chowdhary or Kamineni Srinivas anti-social elements. Are they terrorists? What is wrong if Ramesh Kumar met the two leaders,” Ramaiah questioned.

Further, he noted that Ramesh Kumar could have met the senior BJP leaders to apprise the current situation in Andhra Pradesh to their central leadership with the Jagan government repeatedly undermining the court verdicts and constitutional bodies. “How did Sakshi TV, the mouthpiece of Jagan’s YSRCP, get hold of the CCTV footage? How did the CCTV footage from Park Hyatt leak? Obviously, it is a selective leak which is a breach of privacy. Further, there are no cases against the three people in question who had a private meeting in Park Hyatt. They are not terrorists. They are not accused, no criminal cases are pending against them. So, what is wrong if they meet,” Ramaiah questioned the YSRCP leaders.

BJP MP Sujana Chowdary categorically clarified that the Central government will definitely interfere if the AP government takes Capital shifting decision. He made this statement in Delhi today as a clear counter to Jagan Reddy Circar’s move to pass a resolution in AP Assembly in two days against Amaravati Capital. Sujana clarified that the Centre has all the powers to interfere in AP Capital shifting as per the AP Reorganisation Act 2014. It was clearly mentioned in this Act that the AP government should decide location of Capital within 6 months of state separation. The Act also mentioned a recommendatory committee advice to be taken for Capital development.

The previous TDP government duly followed Reorganisation Act and developed Amaravati Capital. Sujana Chowdary said that it would not be possible for the present YCP government to make any radical changes in Capital location now. Such a decision to shift Capital out of Amaravati would invite serious legal problems. Sujana clarified that the Central educational institutions like National Institute of Fashion Technology and the All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) were developed with huge funds in Amaravati just because it is Capital City. Sujana clarified that the Government of India denotified nearly 20,000 acres of forest to facilitate Amaravati Capital. Thousands of crores worth Central projects are under way in AP Capital right now.

The Central Bureau of Investigation is continuing its raids on the TDP leaders. A Bangalore-based CBI team conducted a raid on the residence of senior TDP leader Sujana Chowdary in Hyderabad. This is in connection with the case already filed against the leader over bank loans.

The CBI has reportedly seized important documents and hard discs in today’s raids. The raids are being continued amid reports of the BJP targetting to weaken the TDP further after its humiliating defeat in the AP Assembly election.

The Sakshi media, the mouthpiece of ruling YCP, has been reporting consistently that TDP leaders are looking to join the BJP in the coming months. These reports are interpreted by political experts that CM Jaganmohan Reddy is hell-bent on destroying TDP with the help of BJP. The immediate target of Modi-Shah duo is TDP in AP and TRS in Telangana.

The Central Bureau of Investigation has issued a notice to senior TDP leader Sujana Chowdary in a 2017 bank fraud case. Chowdary was asked to appear before the CBI Bangalore branch officials on Friday. The charges against the former union minister were that he caused huge losses to the bank in the Best and Crompton Company transactions.

The CBI officials have accused Chowdary of causing a loss of Rs 71 crore to the Andhra Bank. The notices came amid the allegations by the TDP leaders that the BJP is misusing the Central institutions to harass its political rivals across the country.

The TDP leaders have already accused the BJP and the YCP of misusing the Election Commission of India as well to gain an upper hand over the rival parties. They even said that AP Chief Secretary LV Subrahmanyam was carrying out the Delhi agenda in the state.