BRS victory in polls a slap on negative forces: KCR

Hyderabad Deploring the knife attack on BRS MP Kotha Prabhakar Reddy who is a candidate in the upcoming assembly elections, BRS president and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Tuesday said negative forces who resort to such attacks should be taught a lesson.

Prabhakar Reddy, who is the BRS candidate in Dubbak assembly constituency, was stabbed by a 38-year-old man with a knife, while he was campaigning in Siddipet district on Monday.

Rao, also known as KCR, was speaking at an event here where former Congress leaders Nagam Janardhan Reddy and P Vishnu Vardhan Reddy, both denied tickets by Congress to contest in the November 30 polls, joined the BRS here. “Some negative forces would always be there in politics. There are some who oppose. They, with a strange attitude, attacked our MP Prabhakar Reddy yesterday and tried to take his life. By god’s grace, he is out of danger. He is safe now. But this type of deplorable attack is unprecedented. We should be alert to teach them a lesson,” Rao said. “Achieving a great victory in the assembly elections would be a slap on the face of such negative forces,” he said.

Welcoming Janardhan Reddy and Vishnu Vardhan Reddy into BRS, Rao recalled that Janardhan Reddy had even gone to jail during the Telangana agitation in 1969.