Hyderabad, Jan. 22 -- Telangana state Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President N Ramchander Rao on Thursday, January 22, asserted that the Central Government is prepared for a Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) probe into the alleged irregularities in SCCL tenders issued, if a proposal was ever sent their way.

The Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) is a coal mining company jointly owned by the Government of Telangana and the Government of India on a 51:49 equity basis.

In a meeting with office bearers at the party office, he demanded a thorough inquiry into the "irregularities" that occurred in tenders process from the previous Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) government regime to the present Congress government.

The BJP chief ...