Lagadapati Faces Samaikyandhra Ire

Congress MP Lagadapati Rajagopal faced the ire of Samaikyandhra agitators during a protest in Vijayawada on Wednesday.

Lagadapati was mobbed by some protestors when he visited the Panchayat Raj Guest House at Bandar Road to participate in a deeksha by RTC workers.

Raising slogans of "Lagadapati Go Back", the protestors demanded that he resign from the membership of the Lok Sabha. Lagadapati tried in vain to convince the activists that he was a staunch integrationist, but it was only after police intervention that the activists dispersed.

It may be mentioned that state minister S Sailajanath faced a similar situation on Tuesday.

Addressing a different function of students later, Lagadapati called upon the people of the Seemandhra region to intensify their agitation to force the Centre to reverse its decision on Telangana. Stating that Hyderabad belongs to people of all the three regions, he said it was wrong to allot Hyderabad to one particular region.

Lagadapati said that the decision to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh was taken without realising its implications. He said that the decision was so vague that there was no clarity even on what should be the capital of Seemandhra. He said that only through massive agitation could the decision be reversed. (INN)