Hyderabad, June 23 -- : Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) Working President K T Rama Rao on Tuesday alleged that Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy and union Minister G Kishan Reddy were staging "political dramas" over the Hyderabad Metro Rail issue while concealing what he described as a major scam involving Metro Rail-linked assets worth nearly Rs 30,000 crore.

Addressing a BRS cadre meeting in Serilingampally, KTR alleged that the Chief Minister was attempting to take control of around 250 acres of Metro-linked land and assets by burdening the state with L&T Metro Rail's debt of about Rs 14,000 crore. He claimed that the government's interest in the Metro project was aimed at gaining control over valuable assets rather than strengthening public t...