MLA seeks security over naxal threat

BSR Congress MLA and mining magnet B Sreeramulu today asked the state government to provide security to him in view of threat from naxalites.
"I request the government to provide security to me because I often travel across the state, including Bellary, which borders naxal-hit Kurnool and Anantapur districts in Andhra Pradesh," he said in the legislative Assembly.
Castigating the government, Sreeramulu, who hails from the mine-rich Bellary district, said it is not keen on bringing the naxalites into the mainstream despite being keen on their surrender before the police.
Raising the issue during the debate on motion of thanks to the Governor for his address, Sreeramulu alleged that innocent people were being apprehended as naxalites and police were perpetrating atrocities on them and requested the government to put an end to it.

Intervening in the debate, former Speaker Ramesh Kumar (Congress) said the government should hold talks with Revolutionary Communist Party activists as they believed in democracy and are ready to work within the parameters of the Constitution.
"We should help them to come to the mainstream. They are not Maoist.