TV5 channel has aired a sensational video footage (two years old!) of Minister P. Shankar Rao involved in corruption by accepting a bribe of Rs.10 Lakhs from one of his Constituency members seeking for a ticket in Hyderabad local elections. The ethical aspect in Shankar Rao is that he lived up to his word and got the work done for the unidentified person.
Shankar Rao seriously warned the particular channel for aiming to damage him politically. ‘I will lodge a criminal complaint against the channel, if they fail to stop the telecast and render an apology. Why did not the channel management telecast this video during the last Hyderabad elections when they have got the clipping two years ago? I came to know that YS Jagan is a stakeholder in this channel. He is trying to destroy my image for filing the case against his illegal assets,’ said Shankar Rao calling the video as morphed.