As YSR Telangana Party president Y S Sharmila is getting ready to merge her party with the Congress sooner or later, she has not given up her efforts to be in the media limelight and prove that she is still strongly fighting against the Bharat Rashtra Samithi led by Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao.
On Friday, Sharmila made an attempt to drive down to Gajwel assembly constiteuncy represented by KCR and put up a show on the alleged irregularities in the implementation of Dalit Bandhu scheme.
However, the BRS leaders threatened to obstruct her entry into Gajwel at any cost and create troubles for her. As a result, the Hyderabad police refused permission to Sharmila to travel to Gajwel.
The police kept Sharmila under house-arrest, saying that her visit would create law and order problems in Gajwel. Huge police forces were deployed outside her residence and they refused to allow her to move out.
The cops told her that local Bharat Rashtra Samithi workers were staging a dharna at Gajwel opposing her visit; and that her visit at this stage might cause law and order problems there.
Sharmila insisted that she must go there, as she had received a representation from the Dalit families of Teegul village of Jagdevpur block that there were large scale irregularities in the distribution of financial assistance under Dalit Bandhu scheme.
But the police refused to allow her and confined her to her house. As a mark of protest, Sharmila offered “Aarthi” to the cops who surrounded her and said she would pray the god to give better wisdom to the cops, so that they would not work as an extended outfit of the BRS.
Coming down heavily on the state government for keeping her under house arrest, Sharmila said it was shameful on the part of chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao for continuing to target her.
“When the police could give permission for the BRS workers to stage a dharna and threaten her against visiting Gajwel, why are they stopping me from going there?” she asked.
She said the police should do their duty sincerely and adhere to the Constitution of India and not that of KCR.
“The chief minister is clearly rattled and is losing his position. He is obviously scared that my visit will further expose his misdeeds and deception, in his constituency,” she said.
Later, Sharmila, along with her party colleagues, sat on a day-long dharna in front of her residence and raised slogans against the state government and highhandedness of the police.
