Hyderabad, June 27 -- Singareni Collieries Workers Union honorary president, CPI state secretary and MLA Kunamneni Sambasiva Rao, on Friday, June 26, dismissed as "completely false" allegations by former minister Harish Rao that 4 million tonnes of coal had gone missing from Singareni.

Speaking at a press conference at Makhdoom Bhavan in Hyderabad, Kunamneni said Harish Rao was free to seek a CBI inquiry if he had doubts over the issue.

He alleged that leaders of the BRS government had inflated coal stock figures by 7.5 million tonnes during their tenure and demanded that they first explain those discrepancies.

Kunamneni recalled that Dasoju Sravan Kumar, then a Congress spokesperson, had lodged a complaint with the Central Vigilance C...