Hyderabad, June 17 || Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) President B. Mahesh Kumar Goud on Tuesday demanded that those involved in the phone-tapping under the previous government of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) should be punished.
He said the then ruling party leaders who ordered tapping of phones of their political rivals and the IAS and IPS officers who obeyed the orders should be punished.
He was talking to media persons after recording his statement as a witness before the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the state police probing the phone tapping allegations.
Goud said the guilty should be punished stringently so that in future no government should dare to indulge in such illegal and unethical activity.
He claimed that the Congress party suffered defeats in Telangana due to illegal phone tapping of its leaders by the BRS government.
He alleged that the BRS government tapped the phones of several Congress leaders. He said his and the Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy’s phones were also tapped.
Goud said that on suspicion that his phone was being tapped, he had lodged a complaint with the police. “Today, the facts have come out. Phones of senior Congress leaders have been tapped since 2022. We learnt that there are names of 650 Congress leaders in the SIT’s list of those whose phones were illegally tapped,” he said.