Telangana is new suicide capital, says Congress MLA
He said that in the present Telangana state, there was no value for the past struggle.
Hyderabad: Congress MLA T. Jaya Prakash Reddy (Jagga Reddy) on Wednesday said that the state has become a suicide capital.
Mr Reddy said that during the Telangana movement, TRS chief K. Chandrasekhar Rao had said that if a separate state was be formed there would be no suicides. He said that in the present Telangana state, there was no value for the past struggle.
Mr Reddy also described the RTC strike as a fight between a weak person and a strong person. He said the farmers and RTC workers were committing suicide and it was unfortunate that the RTC strike has stretched for 40 days.
The leader also said that even after the High Court expressed its anger on the government, the government was not willing to resolve the issue. He alleged that the employees union leaders are not speaking have become puppets of the state government.