TRS men attack Lanco office

HYDERABAD: A group of Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) activists attacked an office of Lanco on Road No. 92, Jubilee Hills in the city on Thursday evening.

Police said the attack was in retaliation to an accident involving external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee’s convoy in Nizamabad on Thursday, in which the car of Lagadapati Rajagopal, promoter and former managing director of Lanco and Congress MP from Vijayawada, ran over a TRS worker’s foot when they were trying to obstruct the convoy. But Lanco officials said that it was some other car that was involved in the accident. “There were 20 cars in Pranab’s convoy. How can my car be singled out?” Rajagopal said later.

B Chinna Reddy, 25, a local TRS activist reportedly suffered minor injuries in the accident.

According to eyewitnesses, 30 TRS activists came to the Lanco office that serves as the headquarters for their Lanco Hills project at 4.30 pm and suddenly started pelting stones on the office. “It was totally unprovoked and absolutely an act of vandalism,” said an eyewitness. In the stone pelting that continued for five minutes, the glass panes of the three storied building were completely broken and four cars parked in front of the building were damaged. The TRS men who identified themselves with their party scarves also shouted slogans like ‘Jai Telangana’ during the attack.

A local cop said the activists came directly from the TRS Bhavan, where a training camp was on. However, the city police commissioner said he has to verify the report. “We are trying to find out whether the attackers came from the TRS office and where they went after the attack,” city police commissioner Prasada Rao said. “There were nearly 200 employees at the office. However, no one was hurt, ” DCP Ravi Verma said.

Source : Times Of India