HYDERABAD: Tension prevailed at Gandhi Bhavan, the Congress state office, on Friday after several nurses who were staging protests along with Mahila Congress members were taken into custody by the police.
Telangana Mahila Congress president Sunitha Rao demanded that the TRS government immediately take back all the nurses into duty and enhance their wages.
“Over 1,600 outsourced nurses in Telangana were terminated abruptly on July 6. The nurses began staging protests against the government’s decision. They were holding a demonstration in front of Gandhi Bhavan when the cops dragged and detained them. Some nurses even brokedown and fell on the feets of the cops,” said Sunitha Rao.
The nurses had turned up at Gandhi Bhavan to meet the new TPCC chief Revanth Reddy from where they tried to take out a rally to the DME office in Koti. However, the police foiled the rally.
“Instead of honouring the nurses who as frontline warriors have been saving hundreds of lives while risking their own life during the pandemic, the ruling TRS has unleashed police force to suppress their voice,” Sunitha Rao said.
