Why Rahul Silent on Tribal Attacks? KTR Takes Lagcharla Row to Delhi
Hyderabad: The opposition BRS, in an attack mode on the state government and particularly Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy over the issue of setting up a 'Pharma Village' in Kodangal Constituency, on Monday sought to take the issue nationally with party working president K.T. Rama Rao questioning Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi’s silence on the issue and challenging him to speak up on it.
Rama Rao was addressing a press conference in New Delhi, during which some of the women from Lagcherla village and nearby hamlets spoke with media persons and narrated how they were attacked, assaulted and even molested by policemen who went to arrest their men for taking part in an alleged attack on the Vikarabad district collector in Lagcherla.
Prior to the press meet, the group of tribal women, accompanied by senior BRS leaders, called on the National Human Rights, SC/ST, and Women’s commissions and narrated their woes and sought action against officials and policemen who they said assaulted them and molested them in their homes.
The BRS leader said it was time for Rahul Gandhi to speak on the use of brute force on tribal women from Lagcharla and four other hamlets in the Chief Minister’s Kodangal Constituency. “On the one hand, Rahul talks about upholding constitutional values, respect for tribals and how it was the then Congress-led UPA government which brought the stringent Land Acquisition Act. On the other hand, he has not uttered a word about the excesses of the Revanth Reddy government of the Congress in Telangana. At least now, after being done with campaigning for elections in some state Assemblies, we hope Rahul will take note of the issue, speak with Revanth Reddy and ensure justice to the tribal families,” Rama Rao said.
The villagers are complaining that the Chief Minister’s brother is going around the villages threatening people to give up their lands, where the price for each acre is around Rs 60-70 lakh while the government wants to pay Rs 10 lakh. “That man, other than being the CM’s brother, has no post of any kind and he is being allowed to run riot in Kodangal. Is this the justice and equality that Rahul Gandhi talks about?” Rama Rao asked.
