Police today caned Telangana protagonists in retaliation to the stone pelting by them during K. Neeraj Bharadwaj’s funeral procession.
It may be recalled that yesterday Bharadwaj, a student of WITS College committed suicide as he was saddened over the inordinate delay on separate Telangana State.
Telangana Political JAC Chairman Prof. Kodandaram and Siddipet MLA T Harish Rao participated in Bharadwaj’s funeral procession paying last tributes to Neeraj at Mahathma Gandhi Memorial Hospital here.
Speaking on the occasion, Kodandaram pleaded with the youths not to commit suicides for the sake of Telangana and exhorted them to fight for Telangana remaining alive.
He demanded that the Ministers from Warangal district Ponnala Laxmaiah and Basavaraju Saraiah tender resignations to their Minister posts as the Congress party didn’t reveal its stand clearly on Telangana issue till date.
Prof. Kodandaram and Harish Rao organised a ‘Human chain’ along with Telangana protagonists.
Later, they joined the funeral procession of Neeraj and shouted Telangana slogans. When the procession reached the Mulugu Road, the Telangana protagonists tried to burn BC welfare minister Baswaraju Saraiah’s Flex there but the police frustrated their efforts. The irate Telangana protagonists entered into a verbal war with the police leading to stone pelting on police by the Telangana protagonists.
In retaliation, police caned against the Telangana activists. In the melee, one Telangana protagonist received injuries and Harish Rao fell down on the road.
–Agencies