Senior Congress leader V. Hanumantha Rao along with former Mayor Banda Karthika Reddy and TPCC general secretary Banda Chandra Reddy called on Telangana Joint Action Committee Chairman M. Kodandaram at his house on Sunday to extend support for the ‘Amarula Spoorthi Yatra’. Mr. Hanumantha Rao recalled how democratic Congress Government was during the Telangana agitation. “We allowed you to cook on the roads when you protested with ‘Vanta Vaarpu’ programme seeking separate state and no such programme was stopped anywhere by the police including the protests on Tank Bund,” he said.
“But, this Government is not even allowing people to walk on the roads to lodge their protests and this was totally unacceptable,” Mr. Rao added.
Mr. Kodandaram was arrested by the police on Saturday when he was heading to Warangal for the yatra and was released only in the evening. Mr. Kodandaram explained how the police foiled the yatra with undemocratic arrests and said that the yatra would continue till those who sacrificed for the separate State would get justice.
Mr. Hanumantha Rao assured Mr. Kodandaram of the Congress support and standing by him in his programmes to expose the alleged autocratic attitude of the Government in suppressing the voices of people. He said that he had not seen such dictatorship and it was not a good sign for Telangana.
