Tension prevailed at the Telangana Martyrs Memorial, Gun Park on Thursday as the BJP and BRS leaders nearly came to blows after the BJP corporators tried to conduct a mock Assembly session with pictures of Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao and Minister KT Rama Rao, which was opposed by the BRS Vidyarathi activists.
The issue started with BJP corporators took up a mock Assembly at Gun Park with pictures of CM KCR, KTR, Kavitha and other BRS leaders.
The BJP corporators alleged that the chief minister KCR failed to take up development in Telangana.
In the mean time the students wing of the ruling party BRSV activists also reached the place to pay tributes to the Martyrs.
The BRS leaders took objection to the mock Assembly and raised slogans against the BJP leaders.
Police had tough time to handle the situation as there were a large numbers people gathered at the Martyrs Memorial.
Meanwhile Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Thursday inaugurated the Martyrs’ Memorial at Tank Bund as part of concluding ceremony of 21-day state formation day celebrations.
The stainless steel structure in the shape of an earthen oil lamp, built at a cost of Rs 179 crore, is meant as a symbolic tribute to over 2,000 people who sacrificed their lives in the pursuit of achieving a separate state of Telangana over the last six decades.
