KTR to interact with displaced families in Khammam on Thursday

BRS working president KT Rama Rao will visit Khammam to meet families evicted from Bhoodan lands. Party leaders have alleged human rights violations and demanded a judicial inquiry into the demolition of houses in Velugumatla

Khammam: KT Rama Rao, working president of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), will visit Khammam on Thursday to interact with and console families evicted from Bhoodan lands on Tuesday.

Speaking to the media, party district president and MLC Tata Madhusudhan said Rama Rao would also visit Vinoba Navodaya Colony in the Velugumatla area to inspect the destruction allegedly caused by the Indian National Congress government.

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Madhusudhan demanded a judicial inquiry by a sitting judge into what he described as violations of human rights. He termed the incident in Velugumatla village as “inhuman” and said demolishing houses with bulldozers was akin to waging war against enemies.

He alleged that preventing media coverage reflected suppression of press freedom and criticised the government’s claim of ‘Praja Palana’, calling it tyrannical.

The government has failed to implement guarantees made to the people over the past 25 months and was indulging in mudslinging against the BRS to cover up its failures, he said. He added that development carried out during the BRS’s decade-long rule was being damaged.

MP Vaddiraju Ravichandra, former minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar, former MP Nama Nageswara Rao and other district leaders will accompany Rama Rao during the visit, Madhusudhan said.