A suicide bid by a 25-year-old man at a meeting of Bharatiya Janata Party’s State president G.Kishan Reddy at a private function hall in Nalgonda created a flutter here on Wednesday evening.
To mark the completion of one year of the NDA government, the Nalgonda division of the party had organised a “Rededication Meet” with party workers. Within five minutes of Mr. Kishan Reddy starting his speech, the youth identified as B. Shankar came running towards the dais after setting himself ablaze.
Shocked over the sudden development, the BJP leaders on the stage ran off the dais. The cadre and leaders ran helter-skelter for a couple of minutes as they could not figure out what was going on.
The youth was raising Jai Telangana slogans on the dais when the police came to his rescue.
They threw a carpet on him and rolled it around him to douse the fire.
The BJP president and other leaders present rushed him to the Government Hospital but, as proper medicare was not available there to treat the patient, he was shifted to a private hospital. The doctors attending on him said that Shankar had sustained over 30 per cent burns. Mr. Reddy said the youth, native of Kesarajupalli, had been fighting for an endowment land in his village which was allegedly occupied by some local people said to be moving with leaders of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi.
The youth had been fighting for a temple land occupied by some people close to TRS leaders, says Kishan Reddy
