TRS Corporator representing 12th division in Karimnagar Municipal Corporation Mendi Srilatha has announced her resignation from the party and to her post in protest against the attitude of Karimnagar MLA Gangula Kamalakar in denying funds for the development of her division and she charged him with insulting a Dalit woman by not inviting her to any of the party programmes.
At a press conference here on Sunday, the TRS corporator had announced her decision to resign to the party and corporator post. She also charged the legislator with registering false cases against her husband and former corporator Mendi Chandrashekhar, who floated Dalit and Muslims United Front in Karimnagar, and harassing her mentally.
She charged the legislator with trying to suppress Dalits in the town and threatened to commit suicide in front of the legislator’s house. She recalled that though she was elected on Congress ticket in 2014 elections, she joined the TRS after the legislator promised her with taking up a number of developmental works in her municipal division.
In September last year another woman corporator — Gugilla Jayashree representing 30th division — had announced resignation to the party unable to bear the mental agony caused by the legislator who denied funds for developmental programmes.
Ms. Srilatha’s husband and former corporator Mendi Chandrashekhar alleged that the legislator had forced some persons to register false cases of encroachment of land in Seetharampur locality on the outskirts of the town. He said that complainant Jeevan Chander had withdrawn the complaint lodged against him. But, the police registered an FIR due to the political pressures, he alleged and added that he would approach the State Human Rights Commission and the National SC Commission against the legislator for harassing the Dalits in Karimnagar town.
