KTR’s feedback had been viral on social media and kicked off a political storm in Telangana (File)
Hyderabad:
Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) chief KT Rama Rao, underneath fireplace for his alleged derogatory remarks about girls, in the present day appeared earlier than the Telangana Girls’s Fee in response to a summon. Throughout his go to, just a few members of the fee tied a rakhi to KTR which has now sparked a contemporary row.
The state girls’s fee has issued a discover to its members for tying a rakhi to KTR. Girls’s Fee chairperson Sharada Nerella in a submit mentioned six members had been engaged in an “inappropriate act” by tying a rakhi to the BRS chief, including that “partaking in any such conduct that will increase questions concerning the neutrality of the Fee is fully unacceptable”.
Ms Nerella directed the Secretary of the Fee to instantly challenge notices to the concerned members and provoke stringent disciplinary motion in opposition to them. She mentioned “Such behaviour isn’t solely unbecoming of the Fee members but additionally compromises the dignity and impartiality that we’re sure to take care of.”
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KTR expressed remorse and apologised once more for his feedback about girls travelling in state-run RTC buses. Offering a proof for his assertion, KTR acknowledged that such statements had been inappropriate and mustn’t have been made by somebody holding a management place of his stature. The Fee accepted his apology and directed him to chorus from making any such remarks sooner or later.
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“I personally appeared earlier than the Telangana State Girls’s Fee as directed by the Chairman Sharada Nerella. I expressed remorse for my remarks made with none intention on girls earlier than the Fee,” he mentioned.
He additionally briefed the Fee concerning the assaults on the ladies within the final eight months after the Congress authorities got here to energy within the state.
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KTR’s Remarks Spark Row
Addressing his get together employees on August 15, KTR spoke about girls utilising the state’s free bus journey scheme which was launched shortly after the Congress got here to energy within the state this yr. He mentioned girls travelling on these buses may “do break dances” in the event that they wished, including that the BRS had no objection if girls engaged in actions like knitting whereas on the bus so long as busses had been protected.
KTR’s feedback had been viral on social media and kicked off a political storm in Telangana. Girls’s rights activists, political opponents, and most of the people took to numerous platforms to sentence the remarks.
Telangana Minister Danasari Anasuya, identified popularly as Seethakka, was among the many first to demand an unconditional apology from KTR. “Is that this the tradition of respect your father taught you?” Seethakka requested.
Mr Rao, nonetheless, posted an apology on the social media platform X (previously Twitter), stating that he by no means supposed to offend girls and expressed remorse if his phrases had precipitated any hurt.
“I’m sorry if our sisters had been offended by the feedback made within the get together assembly yesterday. I by no means meant to offend my sisters,” KTR posted.
The state Girls’s Fee additionally took a observe of the remarks, saying their very own inquiry.
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