Congress leaders former PCC chief V. Hanumantha Rao, former MPs Mallu Ravi and Anjan Kumar Yadav, former MLA Kodanda Reddy, DCC presidents Anil Yadav and Rohin Reddy, TPCC vice-president Chalama Kiran Reddy, Khairatabad corporator Vijaya Reddy staged a protest at Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) office seeking apology from Commissioner Ronald Ross for allegedly ‘insulting’ them.
The Congress leaders led a huge rally from Gun Park to GHMC office on Friday demanding the government to take swift action in flood-affected areas of the city and extend financial assistance of ₹10,000 per family in areas marooned in flood waters.
An exchange of words took place when the Congress leaders met the Commissioner. One of them apparently asked what happened to the promise of turning the city into Dallas and the Commissioner took objection to it and walked away saying he was not a politician but an officer. The Congress leaders were referring to Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s statement a few years ago that Hyderabad would be developed like Dallas in the USA.
