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Sacked Telangana deputy CM admitted to hospital
Hyderabad, Jan 27
T. Rajaiah, who was sacked
as deputy chief minister of Telangana two days ago, was Tuesday admitted
to a hospital here after he complained of chest pain.
Rajaiah was taken to Apollo Hospital in Hyderguda around 6 p.m. after he complained of chest pain, family sources said.
According
to hospital officials, he is undergoing treatment in intensive care
unit. A team of cardiologists is attending on Rajaiah.
Doctors said Rajaiah was brought with high sugar and blood pressure levels. They described his condition as stable.
Activists
of some Dalit organizations gathered outside the hospital, raising
slogans against Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao for "humiliating"
his deputy by unceremoniously sacking him.
Telugu Desam Party
(TDP) leader M. Narasimhulu, who reached the hospital, alleged Rajaiah
suffered cardiac arrest due to the shocking treatment meted out to him
by Chandrasekhar Rao.
Describing the sacking of Rajaiah as an
insult to Dalits, especially to Madigas, the TDP leader demanded that
the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) government be dismissed.
The
chief minister had Sunday sacked Rajaiah, who was holding health
portfolio, in the wake of corruption allegations against his office and
also the alleged failure of the health department to check swine flu,
which has so far claimed 25 lives in the state.
Chandrasekhar Rao inducted TRS MP Kadiam Srihari in the cabinet and appointed him deputy chief minister.