Hyderabad, Sept. 10 -- Congress MLA Chittem Parnika Reddy questioned the relevance of the recent discussions on "untouchability" and "shuddhikaran" (purification) in the ongoing Telangana Assembly session, saying such issues belonged to the past and that the House should instead focus on addressing the challenges faced by people across several constituencies.

"It is a sad state of affairs that we are going through here in Telangana. We are seeing such issues which we have heard about in the past. And again today, when they are talking about shuddhi karana, untouchability of Dalits here, again where today they have done those shuddhi karana chedamu and all that, the untouchability has gone long back," Reddy said on Wednesday.

The Congres...