Date:12/10/2003 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2003/10/12/stories/2003101211450300.htm

Southern States - Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad

City BJP chief flays `behaviour' of Majlis MLAs

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD OCT.11. The City BJP president has condemned the Majlis MLAs for their `highhanded behaviour' with the city BJP secretary, Ashok Kumar Goud, and other leaders and party workers at Sitarambagh and threatening them allegedly with a revolver on Saturday.

The City BJP unit president, Venkara Ramani, demanded that criminal cases be booked against the erring MLAs.

In a release, Mr. Venkara Ramani termed the behaviour of the Majlis MLAs -- Afsarkhan and Mumtaj Khan -- and other Majlis leaders `unlawful'. "Their effort to disrupt the issuance of photo identity cards to voters by the Municipal Corporation officials exposed their lack of respect for democracy," he said. If they continued their unlawful behaviour, the BJP would respond in a fitting manner and the public too would despise them, he said.