“I have nothing to hide”: TDP leader Nara Lokesh after CID questioning in Inner Road case

Guntur (Andhra Pradesh) [India]: After the questioning by the Crime Investigation Department (CID) about alleged irregularities in the Inner Ring Road case, Telugu Desam Party General Secretary Nara Lokesh said, “I have nothing to hide.”

“In September, I was summoned by Andhra Pradesh CID in an alleged inner ring road scam and I went to court because they were asking questions unrelated to me and documents which today I don’t have access to.

High Court clearly stated that such questions can’t be asked and then I was asked to appear today in front of CID…for nearly 6 hours, I was questioned and a total of 50 questions were asked, out of which 49 questions were not related to alleged inner ring road scam…I am asked to appear tomorrow again…I will reappear again tomorrow…I have nothing to hide…” he told reporters on Tuesday.

The CID had issued a notice to Lokesh for his alleged role in irregularities in the Inner Ring Road alignment case.

Earlier, TDP leader Nara Lokesh along with his supporters staged a protest in the national capital after the CID in Andhra Pradesh served a notice on him in connection with the Amaravati Inner Ring Road ‘scam’ case.

The protest was held outside the Delhi residence of TDP MP Jayadev Galla.

In May 2022, the CID registered an FIR against Chandrababu Naidu, former municipal administration minister Dr P Narayana, Heritage Foods Ltd, and others, for alleged irregularities in the construction of an Inner Ring Road in Amaravati.

Significantly, TDP supremo and Nara Lokesh’s father, Chandrababu Naidu is currently in judicial custody in connection with the alleged multi-crore skill development scam.

The former Andhra CM has approached the Supreme Court, seeking cancellation of the FIR against him alleging that the YSR Congress government in the state had “falsely” implicated him in the case in a bid to muzzle the voice of the Opposition in the state.