[1]In a hurriedly arranged press conference YSR Congress spokesperson Ambati Rambabu clarified that the YSRC’s intention was not to expose reporters, but to expose CBI joint director V.V. Laxminarayana.
Many crime reporters working with different newspapers and news channels held a media conference in the evening and condemned the YSR Congress’ allegations. “It is our duty to make calls to investigating officers and get news; it is highly condemnable that the party objected to this,” the reporters said, demanding an unconditional apology from YSR Congress leaders for dragging their names and organisations into the affair.
YSR Congress MLAs had released purported call lists of two cellphones used by CBI joint director V.V. Laxminarayana which, they said, revealed that from March to June 17, Ms Chandrabala had made 411 and 21 calls to him on two phones. Mr Laxminarayana, according to them, had called her 328 times.
Ms Chandrabala had also called the managing director of a newspaper 10 times, Deloitte Hyderabad 10 times and a senior IPS Officer 15 times. The leaders said that they would bring this conspiracy angle to the notice of national leaders during their proposed meeting in Delhi by this month end. The police later broke up the dharna and took the MLAs into custody before releasing them on personal sureties.
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