Hyderabad, January 28: By and large the much sought after programme Racha Banda by the state government has been facing many hiccups from their rivals.
Leaders and activists supporting the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh continued their agitation which disrupted the ongoing Racha Banda for the fourth consecutive day in Telangana region.
The state government’s scheduled programme intended to promote the welfare schemes for the poor ended half way through as the Ministers or MLAs, MPs concerned who reached their respective constituencies met hot reception from the pro-Telangana workers.
At some places the furniture was either broken or thrown away, tents uprooted and the beneficiaries had to beat a retreat without transacting their business. In most of the mandals, the venues earmarked for the Racha Banda resembled scenes of violence.
The agitators did not spare even the venue that the Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy used for interaction with the poor in Jupadu Bungalow mandal.
The platform for interacting with the poor beneficiaries gave room for ruckus following the anti-government agitators raising slogans in support of a bill for Telangana in the parliament.
The violent scenes came under control only after the police wielded their lathis and checked the pro-Telanganaites.
Tension prevailed in Kolapur, Mahabubnagar district where five buses and three cars were believed to have been torched and several pro-Telanganaites courted arrest for the incident which followed arrest of their men elsewhere.
The Kolapur mandal was the venue for Racha Banda where the Chief Minister participated. The police swung into action to round up the miscreants and brought the situation under control.
In Medak, Mahabubnagar, Warangal, Karimnagar districts violence by Telangana supporters marred the programme.
In Warangal district Mangampet village the MPTC members exhibited their protests in the form of resignations to their posts at the venue, others raised slogans for introducing the ‘Telangana’ bill.
Under the cover of Rachabanda the Madiga Reservation Porata Samithi workers stopped the vehicles of the Minister for Civil Supplies Duddilla Sridhar Babu and demanded that the government lead a delegation to New Delhi for ‘categorisation’ of Malas and Madigas at Dhoolapalli in Karimnagar district. The Minister’s security came to his rescue.
Within the Greater Hyderabad Municipal limits at Begum Bazaar, Minister for Marketing Mukesh Goud issued a warning to the Telangana supporters and threatened that it would not take much time for them to raze to the ground the city based Telangana Bhavan the party office of TRS if they continued their violence and blocked the ongoing programme
INN