KARIMNAGAR: Launching a scathing attack against chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy again, Congress MP Ponnam Prabhakar, who was remanded to 14-day judicial custody, alleged that he was targeting Telanganites who were fighting for the cause of statehood to the region. “He is treating T leaders as enemies,” he said. The MP, along with former minister T Jeevan Reddy who was also arrested and sent to judicial custody on Saturday evening, spent the entire night at the LMD police station as the Karimnagar district jail authorities refused to take them into custody in the night as the jail timings ended.Both Congress leaders were shifted to the jail on Sunday. Speaking to mediapersons before leaving the LMD police station, the MP said that their arrests were undemocratic. “We are fighting for our people’s aspirations.Do we have no right to do so in a democracy?,” he questioned. He suggested that the chief minister should change his attitude towards the T-stir.“Oppression would only intensify the movement,” he warned. After reaching the jail, the MP and the former minister found that the cops had forgotten the remand papers which were to be submitted to the jail authorities.Irked at this, the MP and the former minister squatted at the jail for nearly half-anhour in protest against the negligence of the police personnel.By this time, the cops submitted the remand papers to the jail officials.Later, Ponnam staged a ‘deeksha’ in the jail and other prisoners expressed their solidarity with him. However, he called off his ‘deeksha’ on being requested by Rajya Sabha MP K Kesava Rao. Many of Ponnam’s followers thronged the jail to visit their leader in the jail but the officials did not allow them inside as it was Sunday and there was no ‘mulakath’.
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