(2 Aug) Party leaders, including its State unit president Kishan Reddy, are arrested for leading agitating employees towards Secretariat ...
(2 Aug) Party leaders, including its State unit president Kishan Reddy, are arrested for leading agitating employees towards Secretariat They deplore the Chief Minister for causing hardship to the poor Hyderabad: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) along with Municipal workers on Saturday staged a protest at Indira Park demanding that the government reinstate the employees who were sacked for participating in the strike. Several BJP leaders, including State President G Kishan Reddy, Floor Leader in the legislative Assembly K Lakshman, Uppal MLA N V S S Prabhakar and hundreds of Municipal employees were arrested when they attempted to march towards the Secretariat. Addressing a gathering before commencing the march, BJP State President Kishan Reddy said the Telangana State government was wrecking vengeance on the Municipal workers in the state. It was inhuman on the part of Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao to sack about 1,600 workers for demanding living wage, he said. The dismissed workers were starving, but they were still fighting for justice. He said some of the workers had even attempted suicide as they were unable to feed their children and send them to school. Kishan Reddy also alleged that the Chief Minister, who promised to build two bedroom houses for the poor, had been demolishing the huts in and around Hyderabad city. He urged the employees to sweep the TRS party into dustpan in the upcoming GHMC polls. Home Minister Naini Narasimha Reddy, who was once a trade union leader, had turned anti-worker after attaining power, he said. He demanded that Narisimha Reddy join the agitation and fight against government for the rights of workers. He compared the TRS rule with that of Nizam rule The BJP party leaders, who took part in the meeting, said the Chief Minister was not even having the time to meet the MLAs in the State. They pointed out that no action was taken against the agitating workers during Sakala Janula Samme in the then Congress rule but KCR had been sacking the employees in the newly-formed State of Telangana. "Is this the Bangaru Telangana you are talking about," they asked the Chief Minister. The leaders vowed continue the agitation until the government reinstated the dismissed employees.
