Click to play videoHyderabad: A case has been booked against a Congress MP after he allegedly slapped and assaulted a government employee.
MP from Nagarkurnool in Andhra Pradesh, Manda Jagannatham reportedly slapped Ravinder Reddy, manager of a local branch of Andhra Pradesh Grameen Vikas Bank, after a heated argument.
The MP has accused the manager of deliberately delaying the loans for the SCs and STs. However, the manager says the task given to him by the MP could not have been completed in a day and that he was just following the protocol.
"I told him I would get it done step by step but he didn't listen to me. He manhandled me," claims Reddy.
Denying all these allegations, Jagannatham says the manager was drunk at the time of the confrontation and was rudely talking to him.
"He was very rude to me. He should not have spoken to an MP that way. He should have followed protocol. He was completely drunk. A medical test should be conducted," Jagannatham told CNN-IBN.
Party President Sonia Gandhi has asked for an explanation from the MP.
Even as Congress expressed regret over one of its MPs slapping a Bank employee, bankers protested against the incident in Mehbubnagar, Andhra Pradesh.
The state's Regional Rural Banks Employees Association has demanded that M Jagannatham apologise for what he did. The association said it would take up the matter with the Prime Minister and the Chief Minister. The bank union has threatened to stop disbursal of loans as a mark of protest till action is initiated against the MP.
Jagannath allegedly slapped Ravinder Reddy, the manager of a local branch of Andhra Pradesh Grameen Vikas Bank, for not releasing the loan amount to SC/ST beneficiaries for the last six months at Uppununtala in the district.
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