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The Telangana unit of the Congress lashed out against the upcoming ‘Sunburn festival’, scheduled to be held at the Gachibowli Stadium in Hyderabad from Friday, 24 November.
Former Congress MP V Hanumantha Rao on Thursday submitted a representation to the Cyberabad Police Commissioner, requesting that the Sunburn festival be stopped.
Meanwhile, TPCC spokesperson Addanki Dayakar said that the Telangana government was promoting ‘drug culture’ in the city, and accused Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao of ignoring it.
He also asked how permission was given to the festival, while it was being denied for democratic protests by political parties and students.
This comes a day after Revanth Reddy, who recently defected to the Congress from the TDP, leveled allegations of drug abuse during the festival.
On Thursday, Hanumantha Rao also visited the Gachibowli stadium and got into an argument with the police. He demanded that the permission given to the event must be cancelled.
This is not the first time that the senior Congress leader has courted controversy.
The former Rajya Sabha MP also stopped an RTC bus in Hyderabad and tore the film’s poster stuck on it.
He reportedly said that such posters were responsible for corrupting the youth and ruining their future.
(This article was originally published on The News Minute.)
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