Tribal throws maize plant at Minister

By Our Staff Reporter

WARANGAL, JAN. 28. The Primary Education Minister, Mr. Kadiam Srihari, was on Friday hit with a maize plant by someone from among a belligerent crowd of tribal ryots who confronted him while he was leaving after a general body meeting of the Zilla Parishad here.

The mob tried to bring to his notice the withering of crop due to frequent burning of power transformers at Thirmalaipally village of Rayaparthi mandal. As people cornered the Minister and talked to him in a raised voice near his car outside the meeting hall, a tribal hurled a maize plant to demonstrate how the crop had failed which landed on the Minister's chest. Mr. Srihari ordered the police to take him into custody but he was later let off at the police station when it was stated that the man in his anxiety to show the plant threw it in his direction which inadvertently hit him.

The crowd alleged that the electricity staff neglected farmers of Thirmalaipally by not replacing a transformer which got burnt in the village. They stated that 12 power transformers were burnt in the village due to overload conditions in the last one month.

The Wardhannapet MLA, Mr. E. Dayakar Rao, raised the problem of transformer at the meeting after the Minister left.

Even as the minister was leaving the venue after giving his address, the Shayampet MLA of Congress, Mrs. Konda Surekha, took exception saying Mr. Srihari did not address the vacancy position of teachers in Government schools.

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