BRS leaders burned an effigy and filed complaints with the police against Telangana Congress chief A Revanth Reddy on Wednesday after he said there would be hardly any consequence if Naxalites decide to blow up Pragathi Bhavan, the residence cum camp office of Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao.
Reddy, who is on a padayatra (foot march) – haath se haath jodo – had made the remarks yesterday in Mulugu while accusing the Chief Minister K Chandra Shekhar Rao of being indifferent to the plight of the people and barricading himself inside the high walls of Pragathi Bhavan which was built with several crores of tax payers’ rupees.
Angry over his remarks, the BRS leaders filed complaints against Reddy in the Mulugu and Narasampet police stations alleging that the PCC chief had incited the Naxalites to blow up Pragathi Bhavan and had endangered the life of the chief minister. His effigies were burned at several places as a mark of protest.
Reddy, who is also the Congress MP from Malkajgiri, is known as a firebrand leader very critical of the chief minister and the BRS. Yesterday, on the second day of his padayatra, he spoke at Mulugu accompanied by Danasari Anusuya, the local Congress MLA and a former Naxalite.
Mulugu boasts of large tracts of forest land and tribal population and has been a Naxalite stronghold in the past and perhaps this is why Reddy chose to refer to the Naxalites while criticising the chief minister for being a distant figure from the masses.
“What if the Naxalites blow up Pragathi Bhavan with a bomb? We have nothing to lose there. In the past Naxalites had set off explosions in forts what if they blast the Pragathi Bhavan with dynamite? Pragathi Bhavan is akin to a fort where there is no entry for the poor” Reddy said.
TRS spokesperson Manne Krishank said: “What a low level of politics this is Rahul Gandhi ji! Democracy is about contesting polls and taking on Shri KCR and not asking Naxalites to bomb chief minister’s official residence. Your PCC president is a disgrace.”
Reddy, however, dismissed the cases booked against him asserting that he was not intimidated by the new cases.