Sharmila's Padayatra Yet To Resume?

The police have not yet granted permission for Sharmila's padayatra to resume in Warangal district on Sunday. The district police served a show cause notice asking the leader to explain why the application for permission should not be rejected as the conditions laid down while granting permission earlier were violated.

To this, she said a legal reply will be submitted to the Warangal police.

The YSRTP leader had planned to resume the walkathon from Lingagiri Cross in Narsampet where workers of ruling TRS on November 28 stopped the padyatra following an attack allegedly.

Protesting against remarks made by Sharmila against local TRS MLA, the protesters had set afire her bus and pelted stones on other vehicles. Later, police arrested Sharmila as she refused to call off the padyatra in view of the tense situation in the area.

The police had transferred Sharmila to Hyderabad. During a protest march towards the chief minister's official residence the next day, she was arrested again amid high drama. Her car was damaged in the attack and she wanted to protest in front of the residence of Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao.

The sister of AP CM Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy and some other YSRTP leaders were booked under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and produced before the magistrate. The court granted them bail.

The same day, the Telangana High Court granted conditional permission to YSRTP to resume the padyatra.

Sharmila told the governor that she sees a possible threat to the lives of her padayatra workers.

According to her, the ruling party leaders in Warangal district have threatened to target her everywhere.