Fear, uneasy calm grips Kondareddypally, Lagacherla in CM’s constituency

A police picket has been continuing round the clock in the villages, including Kondareddypally and Lagacherla.

Hyderabad: A sense of fear and uneasy calm has gripped villagers at Kondareddypally in Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy’ s native village and Lagacherla and neighbouring villages under his constituency of Kodangal due to the alleged harassment and atrocities committed by his brothers.

A police picket has been continuing round the clock in the villages, including Kondareddypally and Lagacherla. The streets in the villages are devoid of any usual buzz. The situation, which had turned quite ugly after the November 12 incident, turned worse when former Sarpanch of Kondareddypally, P Sai Reddy, died by suicide on Friday accusing the Chief Minister’s brother of harassment. In the suicide note, the 86-year-old former Sarpanch had alleged that the Chief Minister’s brothers were constructing a veterinary hospital’s compound wall in front of his house and blocking passage to his home.

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Since his death, a sense of fear has gripped Kondareddypally. Though a few people are stepping out of their homes to go for work, most are silent and desisting to speak to Sai Reddy’s family members. His body was shifted to the mortuary in the government hospital, Kalwakurthy. It is unclear whether the final rites of Sai Reddy would be performed in Kondareddypally or Kalwakurthy where his younger son stays. Sai Reddy’s elder son is expected to arrive in Kondareddypally on Sunday night and a decision on the final rites would be taken only after his arrival.

Similarly, residents of Lagacharla, Rotibanda thanda and neighbouring villages are spending anxious moments. After a few people, especially tribal farmers, were arrested in connection with attack on Vikarabad district Collector Prateek Jain and KAKA Special Officer Venkat Reddy, many people left Lagacherla and are staying at their friends and relatives’ homes in other villages.

With constant police vigil, the villagers were unable a lead a normal life. The same was noticed by National Commission for Scheduled Tribes Jatothu Hussain Nayak when he visited the villages to interact with residents, particularly women, who complained about police atrocities during midnight.

Villagers also raised objections over the Chief Minister brother Tirupati Reddy’s oppression and complained that he was exerting pressure on them to part their lands for setting up a pharma village in the constituency.