HYDERABAD: Senior Congress leader V Hanumantha Rao, who held a hunger strike demanding the installation of Ambedkar statue at Punjagutta circle in April, has now decided to hold a state-wide tour to garner support. He will pay a visit to Ambedkar statues in all villages of the State, says the leader.
He announced this at a round-table conference. The meeting was attended by Prof Kodandaram, MP Komatireddy Venkat Reddy, former MP Azeez Pasha, Dalit rights leader J P Raju. “KCR cannot keep the statue forever in jail,” the Congress leader said. Taking a jibe at YS Sharmila, he said, “Sharmila you are going to villages for establishing Ram Rajya, does your father have a problem if the Ambedkar statue is next to him in Punjagutta.”
Komatireddy questioned Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao as to why the statue was still in police custody. He wondered about the CM’s “tall claims” of coming up with a 125-foot-tall statue.