Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president N. Uttam Kumar Reddy on Monday launched a blistering attack on the TRS government accusing it of betraying Singareni coal workers including contract labourers, undermining the rights of Podu cultivators, and subjugating Dalits, tribals and underprivileged sections.
He was addressing a massive public meeting in Yellandu, the birthplace of the Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL), on Monday night to mark the arrival of the Congress party’s Praja Chaitanya Bus Yatra in the coal town. Taking a dig at the TRS leadership, he said the ruling party would witness the wrath of people of Yellandu for encouraging ‘defections.’
“Yellandu MLA Koram Kankaiah, who got elected as the legislator from the ST reserved constituency with the hard work of thousands of party cadres on the Congress ticket in the 2014 general elections, switched his loyalties to the TRS out of sheer opportunism,” he charged, warning the TRS of facing a rout in the next elections for “abetting defections.”