TRS, BJP Get Into Physical Fight At Mahabubnagar

A protocol row at a program attended by Transport Minister P Mahender Reddy led to an altercation involving the ruling TRS leaders and those of the BJP at Mahabubnagar today.

The absence of BJP MLC Ramachandra Rao's name on the name plaque of the event provoked the BJP leaders and activists to take on the ruling party. This led to verbal exchanges, and soon the two sides started physically attacking each other.

The police made a vain bid to control the situation, and eventually local MP Jithender Reddy convinced the warring leaders saying that such mistakes would not recur in the future and asked them to collectively participate in the developmental works.

Later, Mahender Reddy, while beginning the JNNURM buses in the district, announced that every village would be connected by buses soon.

Some 1,100 villages were found to have no bus facility, which would be addressed by the laying of roads first, he declared.

Stating that the JNNURM had sanctioned 130 buses to the Palamur, Karimnagar and Khammam districts, the minister announced that 30 buses would be given to the Mahabubnagar district now.

"Soon we will begin 400 Palle Velugu buses and 100 AC buses, and every Assembly segment will get an AC bus to Hyderabad," he added.