HYDERABAD: With the telecom service providers making it clear to the courts that they carried out legal interceptions of certain mobile phones at the instance of the TRS government, the Chandrababu Naidu has decided to step up its offensive. According to sources, a report on the names of Telangana officials involved in the phone tapping exercise and their AP targets were submitted to the Union home ministry about 10 days ago.

"AP submitted evidence to the Centre pointing to four Telangana all India service officers including two IAS and two IPS officers. We also submitted copies of the authorization letters issued by them to the service providers. The targets of the tapping were AP chief minister Chandrababu Naidu, his son Nara Lokesh, party officer in charge TD Janardan, TDP MPs Garikapati Mohan Rao, CM Ramesh and seven MLAs, including Revanth Reddy, Sandra Venakata Veeraiah and MLC nominee Vem Narender Reddy," said the sources quoting from the document submitted to the home ministry.

As part of the second step of the new offensive, Naidu has reportedly directed his intelligence chief to prepare a detailed note on the entire episode. "Once the note is ready, Union ministers belonging to TDP, Ashok Gajapathi Raju and YS Chowdhary will meet Union home minister Rajnath Singh and seek direct action against the Telangana government for indulging in unlawful phone tapping," claimed the sources.

On Friday, at a high level meeting with senior ministers in Vijayawada, the AP CM expressed confidence that action would be initiated against the Telangana government for not seeking permission before ordering interception of phones belonging to leaders from Andhra Pradesh. "Very soon, the home ministry might seek explanation from the Telangana officials involved in the issue," said a senior minister on condition of anonymity.