Peddapalli, Oct. 15 -- Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president KT Rama Rao on Wednesday, October 14, demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe or an inquiry by a sitting judge into an alleged Rs 10,000 crore scam in the Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SCCL), accusing Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy of conspiring to privatise the state-run miner.

Addressing the "Singareni Karmika Garjana" meeting of coal workers, Rao alleged that the Chief Minister was blaming Singareni for the coal and power shortage. He said this was to give the company a bad name and push it towards privatisation.

He said the 4,000 MW Yadadri thermal power station at Damaracherla, built by the previous BRS government, was not producing even 400 MW...