TDP MLA shaves his head over injustice to AP

Amaravati: Telugu Desam MLA Bode Prasad got his head tonsured on Thursday to protest the Centre's failure to honour the commitments made in the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014. 

The first-time MLA from Penamaluru constituency participated in a protest rally organised by the TDP in solidarity with the party MPs fighting in Parliament for the state's cause and squatted on the road at Vuyyuru centre along with MLC Y V B Rajendra Prasad and others.

Raising slogans for justice to Andhra Pradesh as per the Reorganisation Act and implementation of the promises made in Rajya Sabha by the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the MLA got his head shaved in public to register his protest against the Narendra Modi government.

"For the last four days, our MPs have been fighting it out with the Centre to secure our state's rights. Our protest is to let the Centre know the sentiments of the AP people," Bode Prasad said.

"We are ready for any struggle in solidarity with our MPs and to safeguard our state's interests. It is the responsibility of the Centre to undo the injustice done to us because of the state bifurcation," the MLA said.

Opposition parties in Andhra Pradesh are enforcing the day-long bandh on Thursday to protest the failure of the Centre to implement the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014. On its part, the ruling TDP has been organising rallies across the state in solidarity with its MPs "fighting in Parliament to secure the state's rights."