HYDERABAD: Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao has been issued a notice by the Election Commission after finding him prima facie guilty of allegedly passing derogatory remarks against Hindus while addressing an election rally in Karimnagar last month. Now, K Chandrasekhar Rao on Friday denied the allegation that he had made derogatory remarks against the Hindus to secure the votes of Hindus in the Lok Sabha elections.

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In an explanation, Chandrasekhar Rao said that the complainant had misunderstood his speech and content at an election meeting in Karimnagar on March 17. Basing on the complaint by VHP state president M Rama Raju, the ECI had issued a notice to Rao.

Mr. Rao said: “In reply to the notice received in the party head office on April 10, wherein it is alleged that I have made a statement to secure votes by passing derogatory remarks against Hindus, I state that the said allegation is false and flatly denied in toto.” He said that his speech on March 17 at Karimnagar was widely reported in the media but it was misunderstood by the complainant.

“If one makes an attempt to read the speech carefully and dispassionately, it would sound promoting secularism and democracy which is the brooding idealism and basic structure of our Constitution. It is further pertinent to state that all truncated versions in the complaint are hereby denied,” Chandrasekhar Rao said.

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