KARIMNAGAR: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state chief and Karimnagar MP Bandi Sanjay Kumar staged a two-hour-long mouna diksha (silent protest) from 10 am to 12 pm against the state government for not resolving podu land issues of tribal people and glitches in Dharani portal here at a private function hall in Karimnagar on Monday.
To remind the promise made by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao that he would come to the tribal people and would resolve all the issues pertaining to podu lands they were facing by sitting on a chair, the BJP activists arranged a chair with Chandrasekhar Rao’s name written on it at the agitation site.
Incidentally, it was Sanjay Kumar’s birthday on Monday, but he decided to stage a protest wearing black ribbon against the state government for not fulfilling its promise to the people. The BJP leaders across the state also staged a silent protest at respective BJP offices in support of its state chief, wearing black ribbons.
Speaking to the media, Sanjay came down heavily against Chandrasekhar Rao. Pointing out at the chair, Sanjay said Chandrasekhar Rao might not have visited the tribal areas for the fear of not getting a chair, and so the BJP arranged a maharaja chair so that he could sit on it and resolve the issues.
Instead of fulfilling the promise made to tribal people of allotment of podu lands to cultivate, the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) government was preventing the tribals from cultivating in forest lands. With the instructions given by the TRS government, officials of forest and police departments were forcibly trying to evict the tribals and were behaving harshly with them, he said.
Those who sold their lands 40 or 50 years ago were trying to grab the sold lands from the farmers, he said, adding that many farmers were going from pillar to post, seeking corrections of errors that occurred in the Dharani portal.
“Chandrasekhar Rao’s time is over and people are vexed with him and the TRS government. They are ready to dethrone him any time, if the elections are conducted in the state,” he added.
BJP state leaders Dr G. Manohar Reddy, former MP Ravindra Naik, Budidha Bikshamaiah Goud, K, Mruthyunjayam, district unit presidents G. Krishna Reddy and Rama Krishna, Jaya Sri, D. Shankar and J. Sangappa were among those who participated in the silent protest.
