Hyderabad: Congress leader and Telangana minister for forest and environment, and endowments got emotional at a press conference held on Monday, September 30, while she condemned the posts spread by Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) IT cell and workers offending her modesty as a woman.
The MLA from Warangal East constituency said that she was deeply hurt as a woman, seeing the posts spread by BRS workers, which showed the minister being garlanded, with captions and comments of her getting ‘married.’
Earlier on Monday, a commotion broke out in front of the BRS party headquarters, Telangana Bhavan in Banjara Hills, when congress party workers stormed the building in protest of the offensive social media posts about the minister.
Congress workers tried to burn an effigy in front of the party office, which led to a confrontation between members of both parties. The police had to resort to lathi-charge to disperse the workers of the two political parties to establish law and order.
BRS Siddipet MLA T Harish Rao, who condemned the posts, said that it was every person’s responsibility to respect women, and that it wouldn’t be tolerated if someone behaved in such a manner, whether it was BRS party or himself.
It could be recalled that it was Surekha, who had warned BRS working president KT Rama Rao (KTR) recently not to make objectionable remarks against women, when he had commented in a party meeting about the women travelling in TGSRTC buses free-of-cost by availing the Congress government’s scheme for free bus travel.
KTR had tendered his apology for his remarks. The state women’s commission had also summoned KTR to explain his actions.
| Posted by Parameswaran Valeri | 
