Hyderabad: Telangana Jagruthi President K Kavitha vowed to continue her hunger strike after she was transferred to Hyderabad from Khammam on Tuesday morning.
Dalit Shakti Programme President Visharadan Maharaj and Kavitha launched the protest at Ambedkar Bhavan in Khammam on Monday night and demanded justice for displaced poor families of Vinoba Navodaya Colony, Velugumatla.
Police break up protest:
Police swooped in on the protest at around 5.45 am on Monday morning and detained the two leaders before shifting them to Hyderabad in a police vehicle.
Media reports said that she vowed to hunger strike at Telangana Jagruthi office in Hyderabad over the demand to construct houses for the displaced poor people in Velugumetla. Their houses built on Bhoodan lands were demolished by the state government on February 24, 2026.
The demolitions attracted condemnation from Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who dubbed it as ‘bulldozer raj’ of Congress.
Defending the demolitions, Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy said that Vijayan is misleading the public with ‘political propaganda’. Reddy claimed that the Bhoodan land in question was sold illegally to unsuspecting families by ‘land mafia’ using fake documents.
The minister further said that the government would provide housing for the displaced through Indiramma Indlu scheme and they would force the ‘land mafia’ to return the victims money.