Barely hours before taking over the reigns of Telangana, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) is facing a piquant situation arising out of its own assurance given on the Chief Minister’s post with the Madiga Reservation Porata Samithi (MRPS) giving a call to boycott the oath-taking ceremony of K. Chandrasekhar Rao.
Founder of MRPS, Manda Krishna Madiga, who is also the president of Mahajana Socialist Party (MSP), on Sunday requested all political parties in Telangana including Dalit leaders of TRS to boycott the TRS chief’s swearing-in to restore the self esteem of the underprivileged communities and to protest the betrayal of the Madiga community.
“We all have been arguing that Seemandhra rulers have been denying us our rights since about six decades in the unified State of Andhra Pradesh, but Telangana rulers are denying democratic and human rights of Dalits a day before the formation of the State. It’s unfortunate that Dalits have to celebrate the achievement of statehood as a result of the sacrifices made by martyrs,” Mr. Krishna Madiga said.
Mr. Krishna Madiga will personally meet or talk over phone to Telangana leaders of Congress, TDP, MIM, BJP, CPI, CPI (M), BSP and LSP and ask them to stay away from the oath-taking ceremony of Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao. Their participation would amount to the encouragement of the TRS’ betrayal of Dalits. They would also lose the moral right to question the anti-people actions of the TRS chief in future, he noted.
Recollecting the umpteen instances wherein Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao announced that he would make a Dalit the first Chief Minister of Telangana, the MSP chief said in spite of police denying permission to their protest planned on Monday, they would take out a procession from their office in Parsigutta to Ambedkar statue on the Tank Bund, he asserted.
