2 Adilabad Congress Leaders Appointed Chairmen of State Corporations

Adilabad: Senior Congress Adivasi leader Kotnak Thirupati and INTUC secretary general Janak Prasad of erstwhile Adilabad district have been appointed chairman of the Telangana State Girijan Cooperative Finance Development Corporation and Minimum Wages Advisory Board respectively.

Thirupati held pada yatra along with Rahul Gandhi during the Bharat Jodo Yatra from Kanyakumari to Kashmir. He played an active role in fighting against the arrest of 12 Adivasi women of Koyaposhaguda in Dandepalli mandal and was sent to jail for podu cultivation by forest officials in 2022.

He is now working as AICC Adivasi Department National Coordinator Kotnak Tirupathi.

While INTUC Secretary General Janak Prasad of Mancherial played an active role in mobilising Singareni workers to support the Congress in the Assembly and Lok Sabha elections in coal belt areas.