CPI threatens to organise agitation against coal  

CPI state secretary and Kothagudem MLA Kunamneni Sambasiva Rao on Wednesday threatened to organise agitation and stage hunger strike in protest against the Centre’s move to auction coal mines in Telangana.
Speaking to the media here on Wednesday, he said that former chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao Mines and Minerals Bill 2015 in the Parliamen and thus facilitated the Centre to auction coal mines in Telangana.  
Noting that BJP was too dangerous, he said that there was a need to be cautious, as one can’t imagine Telangana without SCCL, as it provided direct and indirect livelihood to lakhs of people.
Alleging that Union coal and Mines Minister G Kishan Reddy was part of the conspiracy being hatched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Sambasiva Rao appealed to the state government to be prepared to wage a struggle to protect Singareni Collieries Company Limited.
He expressed the view that KCR has lost moral high ground to speak on the defection of BRS MLAs as he had engineered the defections when he was in power.