ED summons Kavitha in Delhi excise policy probe

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI: K Kavitha, a member of the Telangana legislative council and daughter of Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao, has been issued fresh
summons by the ED to appear for questioning at its Delhi headquarters on Friday
She has been summoned in a money laundering case related to alleged payoffs of Rs 100 crore by the "South Group" for control of liquor
issued summons for Thursday, soon after the agency arrested Arun Pillai, an alleged close associate of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi lawmaker
After she skipped the summons, a fresh one was issued for Friday, sources said
While questioning the action, Kavitha told a press conference that she will appear before the agency on Saturday as she will be on a hunger
strike here on Friday in support of the women's reservation bill.Kavitha called the ED summons an act of vendetta politics as, she
claimed, at least 15-16 leaders from her party, including MLAs and MPs, have been targeted by central agencies in different cases
She said agencies are targeting parties and leaders that don't subscribe to the BJP ideology
"The question is why? The Telangana assembly polls are due in November-December
The modus operandi of the BJP has been that before (PM) Modi, ED reaches wherever there are elections," she said.Pillai said South Group
paid `100cr to AAP leaders: EDThe agency had arrested Arun Pillai on Tuesday in the same case
Aurobindo Pharma), Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy (YSR Congress MP from Ongole), his son Raghav Magunta and K Kavitha
policy scam: BRS leader K Kavitha seeks more time after ED summons her