TDP floor leader in Telangana Assembly, Errabelli Dayakar Rao, has said that Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao encouraged traitors by giving them Minister posts and neglected the families of Telangana martyrs.
Talking to newsmen here on Tuesday, he criticised the Chief Minister for giving Minister posts to Tummala Nageshwara Rao and T. Srinivas Yadav, who chased away the Telangana activists during the statehood movement.
Stating that Tummala and Srinivas Yadav never participated in the statehood movement, he said that ‘We participated in the movement and several cases were registered against us”.
Mr. Dayakar Rao found fault with the State government for reducing the number of Telangana martyrs from 1,200 to 400. He felt that the government should have allocated Minister post to Telangana martyr Srikantha Chary’s mother. He also charged the TRS government for neglecting Dalits and women while allocating the Ministerial posts. Flaying the State government for imposing restrictions on the media in the Secretariat, he demanded that Telangana Press Academy chairman Allam Narayana to intervene He appealed to the people to make the proposed visit of TDP national president N. Chandrababu Naidu to Karimnagar on March 3 a grand success. He also asked MRPS leaders to cooperate with the party.
He said that Mr. Naidu would address the party workers meeting here on March 3.
TDP leaders E. Peddi Reddy, Ch. Vijayaramana Rao, Gandra Nalini, and E. Narasinga Rao were present.
