The sibling rivalry between two brothers from an influential political family in Andhra Pradesh is causing a major embarrassment to the Telugu Desam Party led NDA government in Andhra Pradesh.
The long-standing feud between Kesineni Sivanath alias Chinni, the present TDP MP from Vijayawada, and his brother Kesineni Srinivas alias Nani, a former TDP MP who had a bitter fallout with the ruling party, has now reached a boiling point.
Kesineni Nani, who lost to his brother in the 2024 Lok Sabha election, has accused the incumbent MP of involvement in the Rs 3,200 crore liquor scam that allegedly occurred under the watch of the previous YSR Congress Party government.
Earlier on April 22, Nani shot off a letter to the Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, raising concerns over the allotment of 60 acres in Visakhapatnam to URSA Clusters Pvt Ltd for a data centre project, which he alleged was a fraudulent venture linked to his brother Kesineni Chinni.
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In a fresh post on X addressed to Naidu, Nani claimed that he has credible information linking his estranged brother to key figures arrested in the AP liquor scam, including Kesireddy Rajasekhar Reddy and his associate Dileep Paila.
“Kesireddy Rajasekhar Reddy, a former government advisor and now prime accused in the liquor scam, is a designated partner in Pryde Infracon LLP — alongside MP Kesineni Chinni and his wife Janaki Lakshmi Kesineni. The company is registered at an address in Hyderabad. Eshanvi Infra Projects Pvt. Ltd., the company operated by Kesireddy and his arrested aide Dileep Paila, shares this same address. Most alarming is that both Pryde Infracon LLP and Eshanvi Infra Projects Pvt. Ltd. use the same official email ID: accounts@eshanviinfraprojects.com — clearly indicating not just proximity, but also a deeper and deliberate operational linkage between the two entities,” the former MP alleged.
He said that as Eshanvi may have been already under the scanner with two key people arrested, the direct connection to a sitting MP, raises grave concerns of political shielding and financial collusion.
Furthermore, there is credible information suggesting that Kesineni Chinni invested large sums of illicitly routed funds into Hyderabad real estate and offshore companies like Kesineni International Ltd., Delaware, USA and Kesineni Global Enterprises, Dubai, UAE, Nani alleged.
“These may be used to launder and hold unaccounted wealth from domestic operations tied to the scam,” he alleged.
The former MP urged the Chief Minister to order an independent and high-level investigation into the ruling party MP’s financial dealings.
He alleged that misuse of power and proximity to the accused individuals at this scale should not go unexamined. “The fact that a sitting MP is a partner in a company functionally tied to two arrested individuals — one being a principal accused — demands a thorough, unbiased investigation to safeguard the integrity of the state and public confidence in leadership,” Nani said.
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