KTR 'thanks' Modi for having Bandi Sanjay as 'ED chief'

HYDERABAD: Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) Working President and IT Minister KT Rama Rao, on Friday, took a jibe at Bharatiya Janata Party state president Bandi Sanjay after he said that Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao would have to face an Enforcement Directorate (RD) investigation soon.

Addressing the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), KTR tweeted, "Dear PMO, thank you for appointing BJP state president Mr. BS Kumar as the ED chief. Now we realise the double engine that runs this country is actually 'Modi & ED'."

At the 'Janam Ghosha-BJP Bharosa' program, which was held in Siddipet on Thursday, Bandi Sanjay said that KCR would also face an ED investigation sooner or later. He criticized KCR for not understanding why he was supporting the protests of the Congress party against the ongoing ED inquiry against Sonia Gandhi. Addressing Sonia Gandhi, he commented that Prime Minister Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah also attended the hearings but never resorted to such protests.

Earlier on Friday, Minister KTR had also asked Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav to reconsider the decision of lifting concessions for senior citizens in trains. He said that the decision to remove the subsidy is painful. "Taking care of elders is not only our responsibility but also our duty," KTR tweeted to the Union Minister.