Hyderabad, Feb 5: TDP senior leader Dadi Veerabhadra Rao has demanded immediate dismissal of “corrupt ministers” from the cabinet.

In a statement here on Sunday, he stated that the CBI should also name the ministers as accused in the charge-sheets, in cases in which IAS officers were being arrested. He said that leaving the ministers and ruling party leaders and victimizing only officials would lead to erosion of the image of the CBI. He also said that the officers facing charges should turn into approvers and reveal facts. 

Alleging that ministers were evading prosecution by turning into witnesses, Dadi has questioned as to why the officials should not do the same thing. Stating that the IAS officials should divulge facts about who had pressurized them to take wrong decisions, he said that by faulting the CBI’s stand, the officials were giving an impression that they were blackmailing the Central investigating agency.

Stating that it was a known fact that MP KVP Ramachandra Rao, the then adviser to late chief minister Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy and Y S Jaganmohan Reddy were responsible for all the irregularities, he asked why the CBI had not questioned Ramachandra Rao at least once. He also questioned how minister and officials had issued illegal orders in the mining department, without the approval of the cabinet. He said that the cabinet had approved decisions taken in the mining department, nine months after decisions were implemented.

Veerabhadra Rao said that even when the Chief Minister himself instructed them, officials had a responsibility to state in writing, whether or not to implement a decision. He said that while some bureaucrats objected every public utility decision, quoting rules and delay implementation of welfare schemes for years together, there were others, who had handed over State’s wealth to private individuals within a week.

Recalling that the IAS has been a highly responsible institution right from the British days, Veerabhadra Rao said that if some people surrender to greed and mortgage State’s interests, the entire IAS system would lose confidence of the people. He counseled the bureaucrats to once again indulge in soul-searching about their attitude and ensure that the entire system would not be defamed.