PNS|Hyderabad
Madiga MLAs met AICC’s Telangana in-charge Meenakshi Natarajan and submitted a memorandum appealing to her to give a chance to Madiga MLAs while expanding the Cabinet.
Madiga MLAs Government Whip Adluri Laxman, Kavvampalli Sathyanarayana, Mandula Samuel, Thota Laxmi Kantha Rao met Meenakshi Natarajan at the Adarsh Nagar MLA Quarters.
Later, addressing the media, Manukondur MLA Kavampalli Satyanarayana said they submitted a memorandum to Meenakshi Natarajan requesting a place in the Cabinet.
“We also submitted a memorandum to Uttam Kumar Reddy. We have also appealed to Deputy CM Bhatti. Meenakshi said that she will send it to Rahul Gandhi, Mallikarjuna Kharge and KC Venugopal,” Kavvampalli Sathyanarayana said.
He said the CM is ready to prove that he favours the Madiga demand. “We will go to New Delhi on Thursday and submit memoranda to everyone. We want Madigas to be given ministerial posts. Madigas consider the CM as a God-like figure due to his role in SC classification,” Kavvampalli Sathyanarayana said.
“Once the Madiga community gets a ministerial post, we will organise a public meeting attended by 25 lakh people. We will thank the Congress and the Revanth Reddy government,” he added.
Government Whip Adluri Laxman said that Rahul Gandhi said that Madigas should be given a share according to their population percentage. We are also demanding a place in the Cabinet, he added.
“We will submit a petition to AICC chief Mallikarjuna Kharge. We hope that everyone will be positive towards our fair demand,” Laxman said.
Mandula Samuel said Damodara Raja Narasimha’s father is a senior Congress leader. Damodara Raja Narasimha is a senior Congress leader. I don’t know under which quota he was given a ministerial post. We have no quarrel with him. We are not against anyone. Madigas mean the Congress, and the Congress means Madigas, he added.
