Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh cabinet on Friday refused to give permission to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to prosecute a senior state cabinet minister in YSR Congress party leader Y S Jaganmohan Reddy's illegal assets case. The state cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, rejected the CBI request to sanction prosecution of Roads and Buildings Minister Dharmana Prasada Rao. Minister for Information and Public Relations D.K. Aruna announced the decision at a media briefing on Friday evening.
The cabinet meet, which was not attended by Dharmana Rao, deliberated the issue. Health minister D.L. Ravindra Reddy, a known critic of the chief minister, reportedly found fault with the cabinet discussing the issue. He felt the chief minister should have taken a decision on his own. Some ministers also expressed the view that the government should also defend Mopidevi Venkatramna, a former minister who is currently in jail in the same case. Mopidevi resigned as minister soon after he was arrested by the CBI in May this year.
Political analysts said a decision to allow Dharmana Rao's prosecution would have created problems for the Congress government as three other ministers are also facing allegations in the case. Dharmana Rao had sent his resignation to the chief minister in August this year after he was named in the fourth chargesheet filed by the CBI in the case. The chief minister has not yet taken a decision on his resignation.
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