Senior Congress leader from Telangana and Rajya Sabha MP V Hanumantha Rao staged sit-in on the road in Kirlampudu protesting the curbs the state government imposed on the visitors who want to meet fasting Mudragada Padmanabham and express their solidarity. The munnuru Kapu leader from Telangana arrived in Kirlampudi this afternoon to meet Mudragada who is observing indefinite fast demanding BC status to Kapus.

Hanumantha is one of the senior leaders who attended the last Sunday’s Kapu Ikhya Garjana and his name also figures in the list of leaders against whom the police booked case for Tuni violence.
VH was first stopped by the police, after an argument the police allowed him enter the village. Lager, the was again stopped at another check post. The police at the second check post did not pay heed to his argument that he was permitted to meet Madragada by none other than the superintendent of Police . Still they denied permission stating that they had no information from higher ups to allow him to enter Mudragada’s house.

Protesting the police attitude, VH staged sit-on the middle of the road in front of Mudragada’s residence. Condemning police attitude towards people’s representatives, VH said he was neither a terrorist nor a goonda. ” Section 144 imposes restrictions on the assembly of the people. I am all alone. I am an MP. The police can’t stop me from meeting a leader who is on fast,” he said.

After a sometime police finally permitted VH to meet Mudragada. He ex pressed solidarity to Mudragada and his wife.

Defending Mudragada’s demand and the fast, VH said according BC status to Kapus would no way affect the interests of the BCs. He suspected Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu’s hand by the ‘so called protests’ by the BC leaders. Alleging that Naidu was inviting trouble by not implementing the his own poll promise, he said the CM could not postpone the issue creating caste tensions between BCs and Kapus.