VIJAYAWADA: Telugu Desam Party leaders resorted to a novel protest rally against alleged YSR Congress atrocities on SCs, STs, BCs and minorities.
TD legislators, led by opposition leader N Chandrababu Naidu, wore black ribbons and shackles while holding placards and airing slogans against attacks on SCs, STs, BCs and minorities. They lamented the ‘deteriorating’ law and order situation in Andhra Pradesh.
MLC Nara Lokesh wore shackles on his hands to symbolically show how a diabolical regime was ruling the State. TDLP Deputy Leader K Atchannaidu, Nimmakayala Chinarajappa and others decried atrocities in different parts of the State.
They said that never before in the 67-year history of AP, such attacks and humiliations were perpetrated on weaker sections and backward classes. Stating that the State had become Ravana Kashtam and Arachaka Pradesh, they said that just because he questioned the steep rise in liquor prices, a Punganur Dalit youth was forced to end his life.