Even as TPCC vice president and former MP Ponnam Prabhakar launched a fast to exert pressure on the TRS government to sanction the promised government medical college in Karimnagar, Congress Legislature Party leader K. Jana Reddy dampened the spirits of the Congress party rank and file by asking Mr. Prabhakar to call off the hunger strike.
The CLP leader, who visited the Karimnagar town on Saturday to extend solidarity to the hunger strike, shocked the party leaders with his statements appealing the TPCC vice president to call off his indefinite fast and take up a relay hunger strike instead.
Mr. Ponnam should instead launch a relay hunger strike in each and every village to expose Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao’s anti-peoples policies, Mr. Jana Reddy opined.
The CLP leader shocked the people with his statement that he had performed the ground breaking ceremony for the SRSP flood flow canal. He also claimed that he was instrumental in sanction of Rajiv Rahadhari from Hyderabad to Mancherial via Karimnagar and also its expansion into a four-lane road. Mr. Jana Reddy ignored the Congress leaders who were trying to correct him.
The Congress leaders at the venue were shocked by the statements of the CLP leader. Instead of giving a fillip to the movement launched by Mr. Prabhakar, the senior party leader had watered down their hopes with his statements, they said.
