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Congress plans Chalo Sircilla Protest on July 31
TPCC president N Uttam Kumar Reddy has demanded the Chief Minister, K Chandrashekar Rao, to tender apologies to the public in the State over Sircilla incident.
TPCC chief demands KCR ‘apologise to public over Sircilla incident’
​Hanamkonda: TPCC president N Uttam Kumar Reddy has demanded the Chief Minister, K Chandrashekar Rao, to tender apologies to the public in the State over Sircilla incident.
He expressed dismay at the silence by the CM and Mines and Geology Minister K Taraka Rama Rao over the incident. The Chief Minister should act like a statesman and should condemn the incident, where dalits and BCs were subjected to third degree torture by police for protesting against sand mafia.
Speaking to presspersons in Hanamkonda on Thursday, he wanted cases under SC/ST Atrocities (Prevention Act) and IPC section 307 to be filed against the police officials involved in the beating up of villagers from Nerella in Sircilla district. “The officials should also be suspended from their services,” he demanded.
Further, the TPCC chief demanded that an inquiry by a sitting High Court judge. Reddy revealed that a massive protest ‘Chalo Sircilla’ would be staged at Sircilla on July 31 to express dissent against ruling party’s atrocities against dalits and BCs. Lok Sabha former speaker Meira Kumar would take part in the protest.
Sand mining in Sircilla was being carried out in violation of rule by Goldmine Minerals Limited owned by close relation to the Chief Minister, K Chandrashekar Rao.
That was why the government is silent over Nerella incident and not acting even though several people were killed by sand trucks of the company, Reddy alleged. Instead of acting against sand mafia, the police have targeted public, who protested over the death of a person caused by a speeding sand lorry and damaged a lorry.
‘For police, damaging a lorry by public looked like a big crime and were uncaring about deaths of villagers’. On naming the DCC president, N Rajender Reddy, in the murder of a TRS corporator, Uttam Kumar Reddy questioned whether the police would do the same if the accused takes names of TRS party leaders or Commissioner of Police in their confessions.
He warned the TRS against targeting Congress leaders, saying his party would come to rule in Telangana in 2019 and then the TRS leaders would be paid back for their misdeeds.
The TPCC chief along with City Congress leaders K Srinivasa Rao and Rajanala Srihari, ex-minister G Vijayarama Rao, DCCB president J Raghava Reddy, leaders EV Srinivas Rao and N Srinivas paid homage to former President of India late APJ Abdul Kalam marking Kalam’s death anniversary.
