Senior Telugu Desam Party leader and former MLA Chintamaneni Prabhakar, known for his rude and aggressive behaviour, is once again in the news for wrong reason, this time in Hyderabad.
On Wednesday night, the Telangana police raided a place in Patancheru on the outskirts of Hyderabad where Chintamaneni had organised a cockfight.
Acting on a tip off, the police team raided the mango grove in the Pedda Kanjarla village where a large group of men was engaged in betting on cockfights under the lights.
Chintamaneni had allegedly organised the cockfight. The police arrested 21 people. However, 50 others, including Prabhakar managed to escape, the police said.
“Inquiries revealed that Prabhakar was organising cockfights. The police team found about 70 people there but most of them, including Prabhakar managed to escape taking advantage of the darkness. The police seized 31 roosters, Rs 13.12 lakh cash, 26 vehicles and 27 mobile phones,” he said.
Inquiries by the police revealed that Chintamaneni, a former MLA Denduluru in Eluru district of Andhra Pradesh, was conducting the cockfights.
The other main organisers were identified as Akkineni Satish, Krishnam Raju, Barla Raju.
Though cockfights are generally conducted during Sankranti festival, some of the organisers also conduct the cockfights on the outskirts of Hyderabad all through the year.
However, Chintamaneni cried foul over the police statement. In a Facebook post on Thursday morning, he denied the reports that he had organised cock fights and that he had escaped on seeing the police.
“This is nothing but the height of dirty politics. How can you show that a person who was not participating in cock fights was showed to be involved in the crime? You can target me politically, but stop this mudslinging and character assassination,” he said.
Chintamaneni alleged that the YSRC had come to power only through this dirty campaign on the social media and sowed seeds of discord among the people.
“Be ready for the collapse. The time has come to uproot your government. There will be curtains to your demonic rule,” Chintamaneni added.
