Employees and workers of various wings of Yellandu Municipality including sanitation and water supply sections boycotted their duties on Tuesday vociferously condemning the alleged attack on Municipal Commissioner M. Ravi Babu by four TRS local leaders for removing ‘unauthorised’ flex boards and banners on Monday.
The agitated employees and workers staged a demonstration near the Ambedkar statue demanding stringent action against the ‘errant leaders.
They raised slogans denouncing alleged assault of the top official of the civic body for enforcing the regulations as per the State Government’s instructions to curb the menace of unauthorised erection of flex hoardings and banners to prevent accidents.
Workers of sanitation and water supply wings owing allegiance to various trade unions abstained from work as a sign of protest.
The stir has resulted in accumulation of garbage and disrupted water supply in several wards in Yellandu town on Tuesday causing inconvenience to denizens in the midst of festival season.
In Khammam town, the activists of Kula Vivaksha Vyatireka Porata Sangham (KVPS) staged a protest demanding registration of a case under the Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act against the four Telangana Rashtra Samithi leaders allegedly involved in the attack on the Municipal Commissioner for following governemnt orders.
Addressing the demonstrators, the KVPS district general secretary N Manohar alleged that the ruling TRS leaders had attacked a Dalit officer for not obeying their diktats.
They tried to intimidate him to allow unauthorised flex boards of their party to remain in public places. But the civic official removed the unauthorised publicity material citing the instructions earlier issued by Municipal Administration Minister K T Rama Rao to check the menace of unauthorised flex boards, he said.
Mr Manohar alleged that attacks on Dalits have become order of the day under the TRS dispensation.
