A 60-year-old TRS worker Ayub Khan attempted self-immolation at a party meeting addressed by Transport Minister P. Mahender Reddy at Tandur in Ranga Reddy district on Wednesday evening.
Hearing the commotion near the gate at the function hall where the incident took place, the Minister rushed there and drove Khan to the Owaisi Hospital here.
Mr. Khan was said to be nursing a grouse that he did not get any nominated posts in the TRS government. He confronted the Minister at Wednesday’s meeting on the issue . As the Minister took the stage glossing over his complaint, Mr. Khan doused himself in kerosene and lit a match stick. It was said that Mr. Khan’s request for a nominated post was forwarded by the Minister to MLC Farooq Hussain who was supposed to recommend names for appointment of directors of Minorities Finance Corporation. But, there was no progress.