HYDERABAD: The Congress, which has been trying to widen the alleged chasm between IT minister and Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s son KT Rama Rao and irrigation minister and KCR’s nephew T Harish Rao, has asked Harish Rao to join hands with it to topple the KCR government in the state.
The party leaders on Monday asked irrigation minister Harish Rao to backstab the chief minister to remove him from power for the “sake of people”.
“Harish! CM KCR is planning to make his son KTR as his successor. You have no time. Make quick political moves. Come out of the TRS by backstabbing your uncle and sit on the CM gadde. Our party will support you in this task,” Congress leader and former Union minister Sarve Satyanarayana said at Gandhi Nagar police station in Secunderabad on Monday.
He gave this call when he, along with other leaders V Hanumantha Rao, Marri Sashidhar Redy and Ponnala Lakshmaiah, was lodged in the police station.
All those leaders were evicted by the police when they were staging a satyagraha at the Ambedkar statue near the Tank Bund in protest against the state government’s move to relocate Dharna Chowk away from near Indira Park.
TPCC chief N Uttam Kumar Reddy, Bhatti Vikramarka, Mohammed Ali Shabbir and Danam Nagender were among those detained and taken to various police stations. However, by afternoon, all the leaders were released.
Later, Uttam Kumar Reddy alleged that TRS government was suppressing the voice of the opposition by shifting the ‘Dharna Chowk’ to the city outskirts of the city. “The government is not ready to tolerate the voice of dissent,” he said.