The Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) has criticised Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu for encouraging people allegedly involved in “economic offences” in the name of attracting investments from abroad.
PCC vice-president Devineni Rajasekhar (Nehru) has alleged that one of the delegates who accompanied Mr. Naidu during his China visit is facing charges in several economic offences. Sunkara Srivatsava, member of the delegation of businessmen that accompanied the Chief Minister to China recently, was an accused in economic offences--cheating, breach of trust, forgery and abetment sections of the Indian Penal Code-- in Pune, Maharashtra, Karwar, Karnataka, and Hyderabad,” Mr. Rajasekhar told to the media here on Tuesday, producing copies of the charge-sheets filed in the respective courts.
The complainants in Patna and Karwar courts accused Mr. Srivatsava of cheating them, while committing other economic offences in the iron ore business. Mr. Rajasekhar said that taking such persons in a delegation to a foreign country would “send a wrong message to all.”
He said that sons of TDP leaders Ayyanna Patrudu, Karanam Balaram and K.E.Krishnamurthy also accompanied the Chief Minister on these trip. At least ten persons in the delegation were there purely because they were candidates recommended by the Chief Minister’s son N. Lokesh, he alleged.
The Intelligence Department does a background check on all persons in delegations. The reports are put on the CM's table for final approval, Mr. Rajasekhar added.
Sunkara Srivatsava, a member of the delegation, is accused of cheating, breach of trust, forgery and abetment, says PCC vice-president