Telangana BJP leader and three-term MLA from Amberpet constituency in Hyderabad, G Kishan Reddy has landed in EVM hacking controversy.
Syed Shuja, the self-proclaimed cyber expert taking political asylum in US, made shocking allegations saying that EVMs were hacked during 2014 elections, due to which BJP could win Lok Sabha polls. He claimed that Kishan Reddy was aware of EVM hacking.
Syed, during the press conference in London said that he was part of a team at the public sector ECIL, which designed and manufactured the EVMs.
Syed said that his team had Prakash, Keshav, Vamshi, Amjas as members. He said he fled to US from India in May 2014 during Lok Sabha polls as some of his team members were murdered in Hyderabad on the directions of Kishan Reddy.
Syed alleged that Kishan Reddy ordered his three gunmen to shoot his teammates in Hyderabad in 2014 after the polling and the results were yet to be declared.
Syed said he along with his team members had gone to meet Kishan Reddy to talk about hacking and rigging EVMs.
Syed alleged that Kishan's brother-in-law Kamal had arranged this meeting in Uppal.
Syed claimed that BJP created communal rites in city in May 2014 in which few people died in the police firing and these communal rites were staged by Kishan Reddy to show that the murders committed by his gunmen were those who were killed in police firing.
However, Kishan Reddy strongly denied these charges levelled by Syed.
"A man named Syed Shuja made allegation against me in London that my friends and myself killed 11 people in Hydeabad. It was Congress governments then in State and the Centre. Your officers were working at that time. How could I kill 11 people over tampering issue?" Kishan Reddy asked.
Attacking the Congress party for unnecessarily dragging his name in this issue, Kishan Reddy said if he could hack the EVMs, he would have been Telangana CM today.
Kishan Reddy lost recent Assembly polls from Amberpet seat in the hands of TRS.
