Probe Naidu's links with Hasan Ali: YSRCP

Welcoming the union cabinet’s decision to set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to dig out black money, YSR Congress has demanded the Centre to first investigate the confessions of an accused who has helped politicians to stash away money in foreign countries violating FERA and other regulations.

“One Hasan Ali has confessed that many politicians including a former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, living not dead, has used him to divert funds to foreign shores through hawala means. This should be considered seriously and the case should be taken up on priority basis to prove its sincerity,” party spokesperson Vasireddy Padma told reporters here on Wednesday.

CBI quoting Hasan Ali, has reported that he had helped many politicians including a former chief minister of Andhra Pradesh to route unaccounted money to foreign shores between 1995 and 2005 and claimed that he is close to the former chief minister, she said.

“The TDP leader has spent over Rs 12,000 crore during the recent elections and his connections with Hassan Ali, a bookie and accused of money laundering is well established and the union government should take forward its decision of unearthing black money through SIT and take up the Hasan Ali statement into consideration first,” she said.

She said that there is every need to find out the source of getting such a huge amount for TDP and the investigation should begin from the revelations of Hasan Ali.

Vasireddy Padma also flayed the language being used by Chandrababu Naidu’s son Lokesh during the Mahanadu in his personal attack on YSR family. The tone and tenor is uncivilised and not in tune with the democratic way of functioning of a political party, she said.

On Polavaram, she said there is no need to change the design which was approved by YSR. The design stands good and all displaced persons should be rehabilitated appropriately, she added.