What prompted KCR to cancel meeting?

Kondapochamma land oustees’ presence may be a reason

January 17, 2018 11:50 pm | Updated 11:50 pm IST - R. Avadhani

 People waiting for Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao at Markook village in Siddipet district on Wednesday.

People waiting for Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao at Markook village in Siddipet district on Wednesday.

They eagerly waited under the huge tent near the water tank at this village on Wednesday afternoon hoping to interact with Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao in a few minutes .

All the officials had arrived and word spread that the Chief Minister had already started from Gajwel to attend the meeting.

But to the surprise and disappointment of everyone at the meeting hall, there was a message that the programme was cancelled.

The officials announced that the Chief Minster had an important engagement and hence the programme was cancelled. They said that he would visit the village again. The Chief Minister left for Nalgonda to meet Chairman of State Legislative Council Nethi Vidya Sagar who lost his mother recently.

However, unconfirmed reports said that the intelligence agencies advised the Chief Minister to cancel the programme as there might be some dissenting voices from the land oustees of Kondapochamma reservoir which was adjacent to Markook.

“At least 40 persons from the three villages – Bahilampur, Thanedarpally and Mamidyala – were there at the meeting place to present some memorandums to the Chief Minister explaining their problems and putting forth their demands. We had no intention to grill the Chief Minister, but surely wanted our problems to be heard. But we do not know why the programme was cancelled,” said one of the land oustees who was present at the meeting.

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