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Striking lawyers ‘offer' sweets to Kiran's portrait

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TIRUPATI: The Tirupati lawyers agitating for the last 50 days for a High Court Bench exclusively for the Rayalaseema region are adopting novel methods to highlight their issue.

As though to fit into the euphoria that was touched off by N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, a son of the soil, taking over the reigns of the State as Chief Minister, members of the Tirupati Bar on Thursday put up a portrait of the new Chief Minister at their hunger strike camp and offered sweets to it, to symbolically hail his elevation and to seek his intervention to end the impasse on their issue.

Optimistic

Leaders of the local bar -- G. Subramanyam, Samanchi Srinivas and others felt optimistic about the government conceding their demand very soon, because Mr. Kiran Kumar Reddy was himself a law graduate and needed no tutoring on the issue, more so being a Rayalaseema man.

Novel ways

It may be mentioned that the striking lawyers have been adopting novel ways to draw the government's attention.

In course of their stir, some of the antics they indulged in were -- taking out a procession of the ‘Nyaya Devata', symbolic presentation of a memorandum to Lord Venkateswara at Alipiri, giving a milk bath to the ‘Nyaya Devata', conducting a public opinion poll at a busy junction, locking up the main gate of the court and courting arrest.

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