Transport officials block buses transporting Khammam BRS cadre to Warangal meeting

The BRS leaders expressed their anger at the RTA officials for stopping the vehicles. The officials told the BRS leaders that they were following the orders given by the higher officials, who ordered not to allow school buses for the party meeting

Khammam: The district transport department officials stopped private buses hired by the BRS to mobilise the party cadres and the public to go to Warangal for attending the party silver jubilee meeting on Sunday.

RTA officials along with police blocked the buses at Tirumalayapalem on Khammam-Warangal road. On learning about the incident, Khammam BRS district party president MLC Tata Madhusudhan, former MLAs K Upender Reddy and S Venkata Veeraiah reached the spot and questioned the officials why they were stopping the vehicles. After much argument the buses were allowed to move ahead.

The BRS leaders expressed their anger at the RTA officials for stopping the vehicles. The officials told the BRS leaders that they were following the orders given by the higher officials, who ordered not to allow school buses for the party meeting. When the BRS leaders contacted the higher officials, they denied issuing any orders to stop the vehicles.

Similarly the RTA officials stopped private buses going to the BRS Warangal meeting from Sathupalli at Kallur. When BRS activists confronted the officials they left without answering the activists.

Former minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar also spoke to RTA officials and urged them not to prevent the vehicles from going to Warangal.

Earlier in the day Rajya Sabha member Vaddiraju Ravichandra, MLC Madhusudhan, ex-MLAs Venkata Veeraiah, Upender Reddy, K Koteswara Rao and Chandravathi hoisted the BRS flag at Telangana Bhavan in Khammam and flagged off the vehicles. In Kothagudem, former MLA Vanama Venkateswara Rao hoisted the party flag at Yellandu cross roads and left for the Warangal in a vehicle rally.