Kapu strongman and former minister Mudragada Padmanabham seems to be desperate to get back into media limelight, as there has not been much response to his threats to relaunch the agitation for Kapu reservations.
On Tuesday, Mudragada came to Amalapuram police station, saying that he was surrendering to the police in connection with the Tuni incident, where there was a large scale violence during his agitation a few months ago.
He told the police to arrest him and throw him behind bars, since they have started arresting all those against whom cases were filed in the past.
“Since there are cases against me, too, you can arrest me. But don’t harass innocents,” he told the police, but the authorities said they had no instructions from the top bosses to arrest him. As a result, Mudragada squatted in the police station demanding that he should be arrested.
Apparently, Mudragada wants to prove to the world that he was being victimised by the TDP government for taking up the cause of Kapus. This would naturally flare up the agitation and it would cause further troubles to the government.
But the Chandrababu Naidu government is learnt to have decided to ignore him and go ahead with its plan on Kapu reservations.
