Tension is likely to prevail in Karimnagar town on Saturday with the police denying permission for the conduct of fast unto death programme by former MP Ponnam Prabhakar, demanding the sanction of promised government medical college in Karimnagar town.
Following the non-fulfilment of promise made by Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao to sanction government medical college in Karimnagar town during his maiden visit on August 5, 2014, the TPCC vice- president and former MP had called for fast unto death, demanding the government to fulfil its promise. The former MP had applied for permission for his agitation programmes at Indira chowk in the heart of the town.
However, the Commissionerate police rejected the application and denied permission for any kind of meeting, dharna or assembly of people at the Indira chowk. The decision was taken in view of possible law and order problem as the ruling TRS leaders had also issued counter-posters opposing the former MP’s hunger strike.
Besides, the permission was laso denied as the traffic was likely to come to grinding halt in the town following the assembly of huge gathering as part of the hunger strike programme, the police said and added that they would not give permission for fast unto death programme on grounds of abetment to suicide.
However, the former MP is committed to participate in his proposed fast unto death programme in the town and is chalking out strategies along the party rank and file. Mr. Prabhakar and his supporters had been sending messages to the people of the town to attend the hunger strike camp in large numbers.
On the other hand, the TRS leaders led by its district Grandhalaya Samstha chairman Anugu Ravinder Reddy and Banjara Bheri district president Bhukya Tirupathi Naik have released separate posters in the town flaying the TPCC vice-president for politicising the medical college issue for political mileage. The TRS leaders flayed the former MP for his silence when the Congress government cancelled the medical college. They reiterated that the TRS government would definitely sanction the medical college.
