The siege of Eluru MP Kavuri Sambasiva Rao’s Banjara Hills residence by Telangana lawyers on Wednesday led to a confrontation between Telangana and Andhra leaders of the Congress.
The lawyers, accusing Sambasiva Rao of working against the Telangana cause, marched to his residence and staged a dharna, raising slogans that they would not allow such leaders to live in Hyderabad or hold meetings. Though police detained them, the incident triggered a rash of protests, challenges and counter-challenges between leaders of the two regions.
Angry with the lawyers’ protest, Sambasiva Rao questioned whether the advocates would get Telangana if they intimidated him. There was no point in attacking his house at a time when the commitment of the Telangana leaders to the T-cause itself was doubtful, he said and sought to know if any MP from the region was ready to resign. He advised the lawyers to go to the MP whom they had elected and confront him.
Reacting to Sambasiva Rao’s challenge, Nalgonda MP Gutta Sukhender Reddy said he was ready to resign tomorrow itself and Karimangar MP Ponnam Prabhakar echoed the same views. TRS leader T Harish Rao thanked Sambasiva Rao for explaining how useless Congress MPs from Telangana were.
