TDP demands removal of AP minister from cabinet

Follow us:WhatsappFacebookTwitterTelegram.cls-1{fill:#4d4d4d;}.cls-2{fill:#fff;}Google NewsThe TDP today demanded that Andhra Pradesh Labour MinisterDanam Nagender be immediately removed from the state Cabinet, against whom, acriminal case has been filed for allegedly abusing police officers on duty andlocking up the main gate of a temple at Banjara Hills here yesterday."Nagender should be arrested first and removed from theCabinet forthwith for behaving like a street rowdy and inciting people toindulge in illegal acts," Telugu Desam Party (TDP) senior leader andformer Mayor Teegala Krishna Reddy demanded.Talking to newsmen at the party headquarters this afternoon,Teegala said, Nagender had hurt the religious sentiments of Hindus by lockingup the temple gate.He recalled that the state government itself issued an orderin 2009 allocation about 4.38 acres of land to the Hare Krishna Movement forrenovating and upgrading the Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy temple."The minister is using the local people as a cover tograb the temple land to lay a road to his personal land in the vicinity. It wasthe same Nagender who got hundreds of families evicted from Bhimraovada forconstruction of Congress party office at Nampally."If he is sincere about poor people, the ministershould get the controversial GO revoked and house-site pattas (title deeds)issued to the displaced families," the TDP leader demanded.It may be recalled that Nagender went to the templeyesterday with his henchmen and locked up the main gate and prevented the HareKrishna Movement people and temple priests from entering in. When police triedto prevent Nagender, he abused and threatened them with consequences.Accordingly, a criminal case under various sections of IPC,including 353 (preventing a public servant from discharging official duties),has been registered against him in the Banjara Hills police station.Nagender, however, sought to defend his illegitimate actsaying he was fighting on behalf of the people who were his constituents."Such cases are nothing new to me. I will facethem," he maintained.TDP general secretary Varla Ramaiah also demanded immediatearrest of the "rowdy minister"."Some members of the state Cabinet are behaving likerowdies and unsocial elements. It's a curse for people of AP that the likes ofNagender are continuing as ministers. The Chief Minister should act at onceagainst the errant minister," Ramaiah demanded.first published:January 01, 1970, 05:30 ISTlast updated:January 01, 1970, 05:30 IST
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