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‘Conciliation only if PJR drops demands’

Raveendranath Reddy

HYDERABAD: Y.S. Raveendranath Reddy, younger brother of the Chief Minister, on Thursday criticised Congress MLA P. Janardhan Reddy for threatening to go on an indefinite fast if cases were not registered against him and his son Sumadhur Reddy under section 307 of IPC.

“Is he making the demand because we are still alive despite being beaten so badly? If the one who attacked us sits on indefinite fast, what are we supposed to do?” he wondered at a press conference here.

Mr. Raveendranath Reddy said there was scope for compromise only if Mr. Janardhan Reddy withdrew his demands and tendered an apology. “Let him declare his intentions first,” he said. Referring to his meeting with Congress MP V. Hanumanth Rao, he said “he had no heart to ask for a compromise after learning what happened.”

Attitudinal problem

Narrating the sequence of events last Sunday, he admitted that the incident was not pre-meditated and was a spontaneous development arising out of attitudinal problems. “Mr. Janardhan Reddy was not present there and he had no knowledge of what was going on outside,” he said. The MLA, in fact, asked him to “forget” the incident, but “how can I ignore such barbaric act?”

He wanted political parties not to join the issue as it was “purely a private matter” between him and his son on one side and Mr. Janardhan Reddy’ s son Vishnuvardhan Reddy and his associates on the other. “How are the issues taking political and Telangana colour is beyond my comprehension,” he said.

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