Senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha member V Hanumantha Rao has made a sensational allegation that the Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy had colluded with the YSRCP honorary president YS Vijayamma and helped in making her Deeksha in Sircilla town of Karimnagar district a success.

Speaking to the media here on Monday, Hanumantha Rao has said that Vijayamma’s Deeksha in support of the handloom weavers was only for political gains. He has pointed out that handloom weavers across the Telangana region were facing problems and not just in Sircilla town.

Finding fault with the police for ‘attacking Telangana protagonists’, he said it was not correct on the part of police to enter Telangana Bhavan, headquarters of the TRS. He has alleged that there was no democracy in Rayalaseema region and added that he would visit Pulivendula constituency soon for the highlighting the plight of development of BC SC and STs. He has demanded the State government to provide protection to him during his visit to Pulivendula as was done in the case of Vijayamma during her visit to Sircilla.