PCC president Y.S. Sharmila levels a protest demanding Mega DSC on the Congress workplace in Vijayawada on February 22, 2024.
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Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) president Y. S. Sharmila, staged a dharna, together with occasion leaders and cadres on the premises of the occasion workplace Andhra Ratna Bhavan on Thursday morning, as a big posse of police deployed exterior the workplace prevented motion of the occasion leaders and cadres.
Holding placards demanding launch of ‘Mega DSC’ by the federal government, the occasion leaders raised slogans in opposition to the federal government failure to do justice to the youth in the State and demanded justice for them.
The occasion workplace became a citadel with giant posse of police deployed on the whole stretch of the street to stop the occasion leaders from staging the proposed “Chalo Secretariat” protest to focus on the plight of unemployed youth in the State.
Ms. Sharmila Reddy and a lot of occasion leaders and cadres from throughout the State reached the occasion workplace in Vijayawada on Wednesday night time itself and slept there to keep away from their arrest en route the following day.
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A lot of police personnel, together with ladies constables, waited exterior the Congress workplace from early hours of Thursday with autos that have been used to shift the leaders and cadres popping out of the workplace or these coming from exterior, into the workplace.
Former APCC president and CWC member Gidugu Rudra Raju and the occasion’s working president Shaik Mastan Vali who got here out of the workplace have been bundled right into a police car utilizing drive. Mr. Mastan Vali questioned the police act and mentioned that it appeared like a jungle raj prevailed in the State. “Don’t we have the right to stage a protest against a crucial issue like the growing unemployment among the youth of the State?” he requested, whilst he was overpowered by the policemen and put inside a car. They have been later launched.
Ms. Sharmila slammed the “autocratic” rule of the Jagan Mohan Reddy, below which no person was allowed to take up the reason for the struggling sections of the society.
AICC in-charge for Congress occasion in Andhra Pradesh Manickam Tagore posted movies of what he known as “police high handedness in Jagan rule” on “X” and launched a scathing assault on YSR Congress Party’s “misrule”. “Appalled at the mistreatment of APCC working president Mastan Vali and others by Jagan police. This high-handed approach is unacceptable. To stage a protest is a democratic right of people,” he posted.
