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Broad daylight brawl in Uppal between two groups exposes tensions in Telangana Congress

Clash occurred between supporters of rival leaders — both aspirants for the Congress ticket for the Uppal Assembly seat.

ByRaj Rayasam

Published Jul 30, 2023 | 9:06 AM ⚊UpdatedJul 30, 2023 | 9:06 AM

Telangana Congress chief A Revanth Reddy. (Twitter)

Two groups of Congress workers fought with one another on the streets in broad daylight at Asian Theatre in Uppal ahead of Telangana party chief A Revanth Reddy’s tour of his Malkajgiri constituency to survey the damage done to residential areas by the recent rains.

A group of men owing allegiance to a local Congress leader beat up two workers of another leader, with the video of the fight going viral on social media.

It appeared like a scene from an action movie as the supporters of the leader thrashed the other two workers mercilessly. Initially, the victims tried to resist, but as they were outnumbered they tried to flee. The assailants, however, caught and thrashed them.

Trouble between ticket aspirants

What sparked the trouble was that the two workers tore off a banner taking exception to the missing image of their leader, M Parameswar Reddy. This angered the followers of another leader, R Lakshma Reddy.

Soon arguments broke out which led to the assault on the two workers.

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There were only a few policemen at the spot, who found it difficult to restrain the workers who were charging at their victims. Even though one constable held two persons, they continued to kick their rivals, trying to wrench free. Finally, the police managed to drive away the assailants and the two victims too left the scene.

The two leaders are aspirants of Uppal Assembly ticket and each one wanted to be seen as the one who deserves the ticket. Irked by the absence of the picture of Parmaeswar Reddy, his supporters tore up the banner.

Revanth castigates Union government

Later Revanth Reddy visited his constituency and demanded that the Union government complete the elevated corridor works in Uppal as early as possible.

Revanth Reddy said he would raise the issue in the Lok Sabha. He found fault with Union Minister Kishan Reddy for not bringing pressure on the BJP-led government for early completion of the project.

Training his guns at Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, Revanth Reddy said the BRS chief was more concerned about engineering defections from other parties than supervising relief works in the flood-affected areas.

“The government has completely failed in ensuring relief to the affected people,” he contended.

He demanded payment of ex-gratia of ₹25 lakh to the kin of those who died in the floods. He also demanded that the Union government should release ₹1,000 crore to enable the state government to take up relief works.

He said the impact of the floods could have been minimised had the government not ignored the warnings given by the Met Department in advance.

“Choef Minister KCR did not conduct any reviews as soon as the Met Department forecast heavy rains,” he said, adding: “The government is dead in the state.”