Cong, TRS men clash over workers’ buses

Ch Sushil Rao / TNN / May 17, 2020, 04:56 IST

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Telangana Jana Samithi president M. Kodandaram, Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader in Telangana Legislative Assembly Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka, CPI state secretary Chada Venkat Reddy, Telangana Telugu Desam Party (TTDP) president L. Ramana, Senior leader of the Congress party V. Hanumantha Rao and others leaders arriving for all party meeting on on defections to Telangana Rashtra Samithi in Hyderabad on Saturday. Pic: Venkat Rao M

Hyderabad: Senior Congress leader V Hanumantha Rao’s plans to send migrant workers in buses to Odisha turned ugly when Telangana Rashtra Samithi and Congress workers clashed at Sircilla on Friday night. The district administration finally arranged buses for the migrant workers who left at 2.30 am on Saturday.
In Hyderabad, VHR said he had gone to Sircilla to send the workers to Odisha in buses he had arranged, but police did not allow him and instead slapped a case against him.
On the other hand, TRS workers said they had been taking care of the needs of the workers and that VHR had no right to come to Sircilla and interfere in their relief work.
When they questioned where was the necessity for him to come all the way to Sircilla, VHR explained that he had already arranged three buses to send the workers to their native places and that he had taken the necessary permission from the authorities concerned.

Around 10 pm on Friday, police took away VHR to the police station and detained him there.
The workers told the media that they had been trying to go back to their native places in the last three days.
They had come to work in brick kilns in Sircilla eight months ago and the lockdown had made it difficult for them to stay back. They said 85 of them had been working at Pothugal in Sircilla and were out of work.
The situation further worsened when the cops and the district administration told VHR that only a limited number of people could be sent in three buses that had been arranged for them by the Congress leader.

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Ch Sushil Rao

Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.

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