The three-day ‘Sathyagraha Deeksha’ protest launched by former Agriculture Minister and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) Polit Bureau member Somireddy Chandramohan Reddy at Thatiparthi village in Podalakur mandal of SPSR Nellore district was foiled by the police on Tuesday morning.
Around seventy transgender persons arrived in a hired bus at the protest camp on Monday night. Mr. Reddy accused the ruling YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) leaders of trying to ‘misuse’ transgender people as well as the police machinery, in an apparent bid to curb the protest against illegal mining. However, on finding Mr. Reddy in the Satyagraha camp, the transgender people blessed him and returned, he claimed.