Former MLA and senior TDP leader, Tenali Sravan Kumar, on Saturday felt that Chief Minister, Jagan Mohan Reddy, is the accused number one in all the assaults on the Dalits in the State.
With the confidence that Jagan is behind them, the YSRCP leaders are resorting to various kinds of wicked and cruel actions against the SCs, STs, BCs and minorities, Sravan Kumar told media persons. The Chief Minister’s support is squarely responsible for this kind of violent activities against these communities, he added.
Sravan Kumar said that the police force should at least awaken now and take stringent action against the YSRCP leaders as per the laid down norms. The former MLA made an appeal to the SCs, STs, BCs and minorities to at least realise the fact now how Mr Jagan is taking them for granted and the inefficiency of the Ministers belonging to these communities.
Sravan Kumar is of the firm opinion that the Samajika Sadhikara Yatra (social empowerment yatra) is taken up only keeping in view the coming elections to the State Assembly but not to help to the SCs, STs, BCs and minorities. Over six lakh attacks are reported on Dalits from different parts of the State in these four years eight months rule of Jagan while 28 Dalits and 70 BCs have been mercilessly done to death besides thousands of atrocities on BCs, he said.
Despite several such inhuman attacks on the Dalits and BCs the police wing is remaining silent and is dancing to the tunes of the ruling dispensation, Sravan Kumar regretted. Is it not the authoritarianism of the ruling party leaders responsible for a Dalit youth, Bontha Mahendar, resorting to suicide in Dommeru village in the home constituency of Home Minister, Taneti Vanitha, he asked.
Mahendar was the supporter of Vanitha and when there is no security for the life of the supporters of the ruling party leaders one can easily imagine the condition of the normal people, Sravan Kumar said. Is it not with the support of the Chief Minister YSRCP MLC, Anantha Babu, killed his own driver, Subrahmanyam, and door-delivered the body to his family members, the TDP leader asked.
How the Home Minister, who could not save her own follower, can come for the rescue of others, Sravan Kumar asked. The less said the better about the Minister for Social Welfare, he said and pointed out that Jagan did not extend any financial assistance to the families of Dalits who died with electric shock in Prakasam district.
How the Dallit, BC and minorities Ministers who do not have self-respect, can come to the rescue of their own communities, Sravan Kumar remarked and pointed out that the chairman of the SC Corporation himself has admitted that he is the first victim of this Government. Sravan Kumar said that the Samajika Sadhikaratha yatra will in no way help the communities and the Chief Minister should allow the SC, ST, BC and minorities Ministers to function independently.
