Khammam: CPI (M) stages rally against false cases on workers in Madhira

The CPI (M) staged a massive rally in Madhira town, Khammam district, protesting alleged false cases and illegal arrests of its workers. Party leaders including John Wesley, Pothineni Sudharshan, and Nunna Nageswara Rao accused the Congress of acting reminiscent of the Emergency era.

Khammam: The CPI (M) ranks took out a massive rally at Madhira town in the district on Saturday protesting against the filing of false cases on the party workers.

The party state secretary John Wesley, the party leader Pothineni Sudharshan, Nunna Nageswara Rao and others addressed the rally. The rally, which was supposed to be held in the morning, was delayed and held late in the afternoon as the police detained many leaders of the party at their houses across the district.

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In a democratic country, it was utterly unethical for the Congress party, reminiscent of Indira Gandhi’s Emergency era, to illegally arrest CPI (M) party leaders and activists from their homes in the middle of the night and take them to police stations, the leaders complained.

The police acting at the behest of Deputy Minister Bhatti Vikramarka, tried to obstruct the rally held to question the illegal arrests, detentions and false cases being filed against the party workers. But the party workers managed to hold the rally peacefully, they alleged.

Sudharshan complained that hundreds of cases against CPI (M) workers were illegally registered at Chintakani, Bonakal and Madhira police stations. He alleged that Vikramarka was misguiding the police officials and added the officials should not act as Congress party agents, he said.