Shankar Rao to stage silent protest on Sept 30

Former Minister Dr P Shankar Rao on Friday said that he would sit in for Silent Deeksha on September 30 in protest against the insult meted out to Telangana Ministers and MLAs in Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy’s Cabinet.

Talking to media persons at Assembly premises, Shankar Rao said that the Silent Deeksha was also aimed to support the Telangana March. He also questioned the rationale behind Director General of Police V Dinesh Reddy's statement that police would not give permission for the March at a time when Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy was discussing with Ministers over the issue.

“It is nothing but insulting the Telangana Ministers and MLAs,”he said and asked the Ministers to resign from their posts and join the Telangana March and support the statehood agitation. If the Ministers, after meeting the insult, continue on their posts shamelessly, he said that the people of the region would teach a fitting lesson to them and they would lose their deposits in the next elections.