The unfortunate suicide by engineering student Ishan Reddy in the Osmania University campus is yet another tragedy in the Telangana movement, but it was like rubbing the salt on the wounds of Pradesh Congress Committee president D Srinivas.

In his suicide note, Ishan clearly stated that he was committing suicide as an obeisance to goddess Mysamma for ensuring the defeat of DS in the Nizamabad urban by-elections. True to his prayers, many Telangana supporters in Nizamabad district desperately wanted that DS should be defeated in the by-elections, because his victory would mean a further goonda raj in the district. The fact that even the minorities on whom DS was banking on for victory also came up to the polling booth and returned without exercising their franchise, as they sincerely wished DS should lose, according to sources in the vernacular media in the district.

On Friday, when the results were out, DS did not appear repenting; but was arrogant as usual. He refused to answer questions posed by the media and chided them. Even after the suicide of Ishan, the PCC president did not express any regrets. Instead, he reportedly pulled up the media for highlighting the suicide note, defaming him!