18 parties to participate in hunger strike in Delhi: Telangana leader K Kavitha

Bharat Rashtra Samithi BRS MLC and Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Raos daughter K Kavitha on Thursday said that a hunger strike will be held in the national capital on March 10 and that 18 political parties have said that they will participate in the protest launched to seek introduction of the Womens Reservation Bill in the current session of ParliamentThe BRS leader also said that she will face Enforcement Directorate as she has not done anything wrongAddressing a press conference here Kavitha who received summons from the Enforcement Directorate for questioning in the Delhi excise police case said that if a woman has to be interrogated by a central agency then as per law she has a fundamental right to be questioned at her homeWe released a poster on March 2 about the hunger strike in Delhi over the Womens Reservation Bill 18 parties confirmed their participationED summoned me on March 9 I requested for March 16 but dont know what haste theyre in so I agreed for March 11When an agency wants to interrogate a woman she has a fundamental right that it be done at her home she statedSo I requested ED that they can come to my house on 11th March to investigate but they said that I will have to come to them the BRS leader saidKavitha arrived in Delhi today and said that she will be appearing before the Enforcement Directorate on March 11In a series of tweets BRS MLS had hit out alleging that certain political motives have been masquerading in the name of investigationAs a lawabiding citizen Ill fully cooperate with investigating agencies I will appear at your good offices on March 11 she had said in a statementAlso Read Delhi excise policy case ED summons Telangana CMs daughter K KavithaI have been summoned by ED to appear on March 9th in Delhi However due to the Dharna and prefixed appointments Ill see legal opinions on the date of attending it BRS MLC K Kavitha had statedI fail to understand as to why I have been summoned at such short notice It seems that certain political motives have been masquerading in the name of investigation I categorically say that I have nothing to do with the present investigation she had said in a subsequent tweetBeing a social worker and having prior commitments I had already planned my schedule for the upcoming week amp the abrupt rejection of my request seems to be motivated by reasons best known to you which demonstrates that it is nothing but political victimisation she had tweetedOn March 8 the BRS came down heavily on the Centre after the ED summoned Kavitha in connection with its ongoing probe of the Delhi excise policy case saying that the central probe agencies have become an extended arm of the BJPReferring to the summons as politically motivated BRS leader Ravula Sridhar Reddy had said that except ED and BJP nobody really understands the case registered in connection with the newwithdrawn new Delhi excise policyThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever