The 2015 political scandal started off when the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leaders of Telangana state were caught in a video footage, aired in the media, offering bribes to a nominated MLA, Elvis Stephenson, for his vote in the 2015 elections of the Telangana Legislative Council.
Similarly, with N. Chandrababu Naidu, the then Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, with Stephenson was aired in the news media.
[3] In a further development, The High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad for the States of Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana, granted bail to Revanth Reddy and two other co-accused due to lack of substantial evidence.
[4] The elections for the Council of Telangana Assembly were initiated and the notification for six upper house seats were released.
Five candidates from Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), one from Congress and one from TDP got ready to contest the elections.
The videos of Revanth Reddy during this transaction turned out to be critical and aired on TV news channels.
[8][6] The Telugu Desam Party started damage control measures to handle the repeated broadcasting of the conversation in the TV news channels.
[citation needed] The Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu took this seriously as discussions on this issue was propagating throughout the State.
He focused all his attention on this matter for several days and conducted meetings and reviews with Police higher officials.
He immediately sacked the then intelligence chief Mrs. Anuradha for failing to grab information about Telangana ACB plans.