Telugu Desam national general secretary Nara Lokesh on Monday accused the Jagan Mohan Reddy government of spreading lies based on claims allegedly made by West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on the Pegasus software.

He claimed that in the video recording cited by the ruling party, Banerjee spoke in Bengali language and there was no mention of Chandrababu Naidu's name in her comments.





Addressing the media, Lokesh said there was no clarity on whether Banerjee had made any comment against the Chandrababu-led government of the previous term. However, on its part, the TD would be ready to face any inquiry either by a house committee or a judicial committee or even by the CBI.

Lokesh asked chief minister Jagan Reddy whether he was ready for an unbiased high-level probe into the murder of his family member, Vivekananda Reddy. Condemning the government's 'cheap tactics', Lokesh said former DGP Gautam Sawang had given an RTI reply that Pegasus was never procured. He claimed that Israel ambassador announced the spyware was not sold to private persons.





TD legislators led by Lokesh took out a rally outside the assembly on Monday, demanding elimination of all harmful cheap liquor J-brands in the state.

The TD MLAs and MLCs held placards and raised slogans 'Kalthi Sara CM down down' and 'Naatu Sara CM down down'.

They held a protest 'madyabhishekam' (pouring cheap J-liquor) on the photo of Chief Minister Jagan Reddy for committing a “multi-crore liquor fraud” at the cost of innocent lives. TD legislators demanded a judicial inquiry into the liquor deaths.