Noisy scenes in Kalyana Lakshmi cheque distribution in Jagtial

Mild tension prevailed when Congress workers countered the BRS activists.

Jagtial: Noisy scenes were witnessed during the distribution of Kalyana Lakshmi and Shaadi Mubarak cheques to beneficiaries in Jagtial on Saturday.

Trouble began when BRS activists objected to the protocol being flouted with the photograph of local MLA Dr Sanjay Kumar not being printed on the flex boards put up at the Jagtial urban Tahsildar office, where the programme was held. Except for Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy’s photograph, photos of other public representatives were not printed. Mild tension prevailed when Congress workers countered the BRS activists.

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MLC T Jeevan Reddy, Government Whip and Dharmapuri MLA Adluri Laxman Kumar and the police intervened in the matter and brought the situation under control by convincing both sides. However, trouble began again when BRS workers distributed sarees with photographs of BRS president K Chandrashekhar Rao to women at the same venue.

Laxman Kumar objected to this, following which Congress workers demanded the police to seize the car with the sarees. Though women at the venue objected to this, police seized the car and shifted it to the police station.

On the other hand, women faced hardships when the programme for distribution of cheques was delayed due to lack of power supply. Women, who reached the venue at 9 am, were forced to wait for four hours, with power supply being restored only after Jeevan Reddy contacted electricity department officials.

The cheques were distributed to beneficiaries from Jagtial town, rural and urban mandals. Jeevan Reddy, Laxman Kumar, MLA Dr Sanjay Kumar, ZP chairperson D Vasantha and others were present.