CPI national leader and former MLA Chada Venkat Reddy has warned Ramagundam MLA Makkan Singh and Godavarikhani One Town CI Indrasena Reddy to drop their dictatorial conduct, or face resistance from communists. He made the statement on Thursday, November 5, 2026, after speaking with party cadres about an incident in Godavarikhani.

The incident involved CPI floor leader Markapuri Surya and party workers who had staged a peaceful protest at the Godavarikhani Chowrasta. They were demanding justice for people whose shops were demolished. According to Reddy, the CI allegedly grabbed Surya by the neck, tore his clothes, and dragged him away in front of onlookers while hurling abuse. A false case was then slapped on him, he said.

Reddy called the treatment a vicious act and said he strongly condemned it. He stressed that communists have always stood at the front of people’s struggles, and he did not hide his anger at the police and the MLA.

The Ramagundam MLA and the CIs must tone down their dictatorial attitude, or communists will resist. If they try to wrong the people, we will not sit and watch.

The demolition that started it

The protest was about shops in LB Nagar and Tilak Nagar. Reddy said these shops had stood there for about 40 years. They were pulled down in the name of road widening. That alone angered local traders, but Reddy said the sequence that followed was worse.

After the demolitions, the mayor and Singareni General Managers broke coconuts and performed a bhoomi puja for a new shopping complex on the same site. The ceremony suggested the project was moving forward with official backing. Reddy asked whether this was not all theatrics.

Then came the reversal. Once the shopping complex was finished, Singareni officials demolished it again, saying it had been built without permissions. Reddy called this a bizarre turn of events. He asked how a building could be finished, celebrated with ritual, and then torn down over missing approvals.

Why the case against the CPI representative troubles Reddy

Reddy argued that the people who were hurt by the demolitions are the ones who suffered the most. The shopkeepers lost their livelihoods, he said. Filing a false case against a CPI people’s representative for questioning this, in his view, was not justified.

He framed the issue as a matter of basic fairness. Protesting peacefully is a right, and raising questions about the demolitions was the job of a public representative. Reddy said the party would not stay quiet if the people were wronged.

A Telangana story with local stakes

This dispute is not happening in the abstract. Ramagundam and Godavarikhani are in Telangana’s coal belt, and the Singareni company is central to both the demolition controversy and the official actions that followed. For the traders of LB Nagar and Tilak Nagar, the question is simple: who decides what gets built, what gets torn down, and who answers for it. The local administration and the coal company now sit at the center of that question.

Reddy’s warning also reached beyond one police officer. By naming the MLA alongside the CI, he placed the responsibility for the crackdown on the local political leadership, not just the force on the street.

Who was named and who stood with Reddy

Reddy spoke alongside several CPI leaders, including Tandra Sadanandam, Markapuri Surya, Sanigarapu Chandrasekhar, and Manaskumar. Their presence signaled that the party is treating the matter as an organized political fight, not a one-off clash.

What the report does not say

The statement from Reddy is the central account in this report. The available material does not include a response from Makkan Singh, Indrasena Reddy, the mayor, or Singareni officials. It also does not spell out the specific sections of the case filed against Surya or the status of that case. Those gaps matter, because the allegations made by the CPI are serious, and the people named have not been quoted here.

What is clear is the political temperature. A former MLA and national CPI leader has put the Ramagundam MLA and a local police officer on notice. He has tied a public assault, a false case, and a controversial demolition into one story about power and accountability. Whether the warning turns into a bigger confrontation will depend on what happens next in Godavarikhani.