Politics of suicide: TRS jibe at TJAC

HYDERABAD: The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) has asked TJAC leader M Kodandaram not to play politics over corpses. “He is too eager to politicize every death. Though he is a professor, he is only exhibiting his ignorance,” said government whip in the Council Palla Rajeshwar Reddy. The MLC pointed out that OU student E Murali had mentioned in the suicide note that he was unable to cope with his studies.The TRS has reached out to the family of Murali assuring financial assistance and help as a humanitarian gesture and ‘not for political reasons’.
Rajeshwar Reddy told TOI that he himself studied Physics in OU. “Physics, no doubt is a difficult subject. But now students have to appear for exams semester-wise unlike when we were studying. The student would have been under pressure and it is sad that he ended his life because of that,” Reddy said.
In response to Kodandaram statement that the student had ended life as he had no job and because the government has put off the DSC exam, Rajeshwar Reddy said Murali had never aspired to appear for DSC. “It is a clear case of misrepresentation of facts by Kodandaram,” the TRS MLC said.
Rajeshwar Reddy said there was hardly any crowd at ‘Koluvula Kotlata’ meeting that was addressed by Kodandaram. “There were only political activists there spewing venom against CM K Chandrasekhar Rao,” he said.
“We do not have to answer Kodandaram. People are aware of the job notifications and vacancies that are being filled. There are many more jobs in the pipeline. The government is going about fulfilling its promise,” Palla Rajeshwar Reddy said.
To TJAC claim that meeting addressed by Kodandaram was a big success, Reddy quipped, “They want to feel happy about it, let them be.”