Hyderabad, April 21 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Medak Lok Sabha candidate M Raghunandan Rao has 29 pending criminal cases against him including charges of rape filed against him in 2020, according to his Lok Sabha poll affidavit.

Other important pending cases against him include an SC/ST POA case, a case involving an alleged illegal money transfer of Rs 1 crore (during the 2020 Dubbaka by-election) and a provocative speech case from April 2024 (against BRS senior leader T Harish Rao and BRS Medak LS candidate T Venkatarami Reddy) and several cases filed for protests and unlawful assembly.

Finances

According to the poll affidavit, the BJP MLA from Dubbaka and his wife M Manjula Devi hold immovable assets worth Rs 3.85 crores a...