Former minister and Kapu strongman Mudragada Padmanabham, who has been struggling to find an excuse to revive the agitation for Kapu reservations, has found it, when the police arrested five youth, who were accused in the violent incidents that took place during the Kapu garjana meeting held at Tuni in January this year.
Mudragada on Thursday launched indefinite fast, which is his old tactic, at his residence in Kirlampudi, demanding that the arrested youth be released immediately.
He wondered why the government had arrested the youth in the name of participating in the violence, when it had gone soft with more violent groups like Naxalites and terrorists.
“Did you not release Naxalites from jail in the past following the kidnap of IAS officers? Did you not release the extremists to rescue an MLA? Did the government not release dreaded terrorists for the sake of the daughter of a Chief Minister in Jammu and Kashmir? What happened to the rules then? If you talk about rules, our jails would have been clogged with agitators,” he argued.
Padmanabham, who is spearheading the stir for reservation in education and jobs in Andhra Pradesh to his community, had earlier accused Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu of “ignoring” the assurances given to Kapus.
