Honorary president of the Telangana Non-Gazettted Officers Association G. Deviprasad said that if and when the association gets complaints from officials and employees of their being insulted by newly-elected people’s representatives, they would take the matter to the notice of Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao.
When contacted, he told The Hindu that as now there are no complaints from the officials themselves. “We got to know about five such instances from Adilabad, (Bellampalli), Mahabubnagar, Medak (Vikarabad) and two from Warangal, but only through the media.
“I am surprised with reports of Vikarabad MLA B. Sanjeeva Rao because he is known to be a very polite and restrained person,” he said. The other instances that have been reported in recent times are that Bellampalli MLA Durgam Chinnaiah, Mudireddy Yadigiri Reddy (Jangaon), Banoth Shankar Naik (Mahbubabad) and V. Srinivas Goud (Mahabubnagar).
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The senior TNGOs leader said that such instances would be disturbing to officials who worked hard to achieve a separate State. There was a need for people’s representatives to work with coordination, in tandem with the administration without getting to be personally abusive. The need for a pro-administration is all the more now, what with the task before us if we have to realise the dream of a ‘Bangaru Telangana’, he said. Mr. Deviprasad took a few names and said that people’s representatives should take a leaf out of how people like the Chief Minister, Ministers, T. Harish Rao, K.T. Rama Rao and Eatala Rajender behave. The fact that there is development in their respective constituencies is testimony to their behaviour, he said. Telangana Electricity Employees president N. Sivaji said: If such incidents have taken place, they are demeaning and troublesome. They should not happen,” he said.