[1]Sunday’s Telangana march has once again brought to the fore the clear-cut division among the T-Congress leaders on how to approach the separate state issue. While many Congress MLAs and ministers from the region stayed away from the event, only a few of them took a serious view of the “police highhandedness”, and threatened that they would quit their posts. Deputy CM Damodar Raja Narasimha and panchayati raj minister K. Jana Reddy said they will quit their posts if police repression against T-activists continues.
However, the T-ministers did not accompany T-Congress MPs who rushed to CM’s Camp Office to protest against “police highhandedness.” Though T-ministers support the Telangana state cause, when it comes to demonstrating their support publicly, they were seen to be shying away. Besides MLAs Komatireddy Venkata Reddy and P. Vishnuvardhan Reddy, other T-Congress MLAs stayed away from the event.
After getting news about the arrests of T-MPs twice for squatting at the Camp Office, Mr Raja Narasimha declared that he was prepared to quit the post if such provocative measures by police continued. He added he would not go back on his threat to resign once he took a decision. Mr Jana Reddy, who spoke to the CM over phone reportedly objected strongly to the “repressive measures” of the police. He was said to have complained that the police was unnecessarily precipitating the issue and creating hurdles for the activists even after government permitted the march.
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