Hyderabad: Telangana Congress president B Mahesh Kumar Goud on Saturday said the Congress leadership has initiated an internal inquiry to know how details of Meenakshi Natarajan’s court case came into the public domain at the time of the Rajya Sabha election and asserted that stringent action will be taken if anyone from the party is found to be involved in leaking the information.In an informal interaction with the media after his return from New Delhi, where he met AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi, the TPCC president alleged political interference at the level of the Prime Minister’s Office to ensure rejection of the nomination of Meenakshi Natarajan to the Rajya Sabha.“BJP and the central govt are responsible. There was no FIR and yet Meenakshi’s nomination was rejected. Election Commission-appointed returning officer acted under political pressure,” he alleged.Replying to media queries that govt adviser Mohammed Ali Shabbir has claimed that money was involved in granting party posts, Mahesh Goud said there was no need to react before seeking an explanation from one of the senior-most leaders in the party. “We have issued a show cause notice on Shabbir Ali,” Mahesh Goud said.BRS working president K T Rama Rao should take up his bus yatra or padayatra only after giving proof to the people of Telangana on the huge debt left behind by the previous BRS govt, financial mismanagement and land issues done during the previous govt tenure, the TPCC chief demanded.
