Members of the Andhra Pradesh Police Officers’ Association have condemned the attack on police stations and policemen at Tuni in East Godavari district and Nellore.
Association leader D. Subramanyam said every person had the right to take out a procession or express his or her dissent. But protests should be staged without causing any inconvenience to the people and the participants should be patient.
Those leading the rallies, meetings, and processions should not give provocative statements and incite violence, he said.
The duty of policemen was to give protection to the common man, protect public and private properties, and maintain law and order, the association leaders said in a press release on Tuesday.
The letter had a message that justice must be done to Kapu community. Suryanarayana, who hanged himself to a TV dish on the premises of the Collectorate, mentioned in his note that he had waited for long thinking that movie actor Pawan Kalyan would do something for the Kapu community. “But, what remained was my eternal waiting,” he said in his note. Though Pawan Kalyan had claimed that his was a “questioning party”, it turned out to be a party that was “out of question”.
He hoped that “Kapu Garjana” (call given by Mudragada Padmanabham) would fight for justice to the community. He was working as a diesel mechanic in Kakinada dairy farm.
Padmnabham, YSR Congress MLA Jyothula Nehru and TDP legislator B Umamamheswara Rao called on the victim’s family and promised all help.
Interestingly, Pawan Kalyan, who had toed the line of the TDP and threw his weight behind the party in the 2014 elections, made a tongue-in-cheek statement on Monday saying that justice should be done to Kapus without prejudice to the existing Backward Classes. Though he said that anti-social elements and miscreants entered the agitation and torched the train, he was not ready to hold anybody responsible for the same. He, on the other hand, advised the leaders of the protest not to let the agitation slip out of their control and appealed to them to maintain restraint, instead of provoking tempers.
Meanwhile, former Union Minister and Congress member in the Rajya Sabha megastar K Chiranjeevi addressed an open letter to Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu in which he expressed his dismay over Naidu’s attempt to blame the Opposition for the violence in the agitation. He alleged that there was no transparency in the administration in the State in the last 20 months under Naidu. He wanted a resolution to be adopted in the Assembly urging the Centre to include Kapus among BCs and forward the same to the Centre.
