MP regrets slapping bank manager

APOLOGETIC: Congress MP M Jagannatham regrets slapping the bank manager.

    

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Hyderabad: The Congress MP from Andhra Pradesh, who was booked for slapping and assaulting a government employee, regretted the incident on Wednesday.

MP from Nagarkurnool in Andhra Pradesh, Manda Jagannatham reportedly slapped Ravinder Reddy, manager of a local branch of Andhra Pradesh Grameen Vikas Bank, on Tuesday after a heated argument.

"Tomorrow (Thursday) I would be giving a detailed explanation to Sonia Gandhi about the incident. I didn't slap the manager intentionally, it just happened accidentally in a scuffle. I wanted to hold him by shoulder and take him to his superiors ," the MP told CNN-IBN.

"i am sorry, it was an unfortunate incident. But it wasn't intentional," he added.

Party president Sonia Gandhi had asked for an explanation from the MP.

Jagannatham has accused the manager of deliberately delaying the loans for the SCs and STs.

"He was discriminating between SC and ST candidates and I had gone there to ask him for the implementation of the plan," the MP said.

However, the manager said 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," claimed Reddy.

Denying all these allegations, Jagannatham said 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," he told CNN-IBN.