Hyderabad, March 28 -- Demanding that Dr BR Ambedkar's statue at NTR Marg near Necklace Road be opened to the public immediately, Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) Working President KT Rama Rao (KTR) has warned that thousands of people will gather and forcibly open its premises to celebrate Ambedkar Jayanti on April 14.

Alleging that the state government's neglect of Ambedkar's statue was "unacceptable," he announced that BRS will organise a round table conference with intellectuals and environmental experts in the first week of April, and would conduct awareness campaigns on the neglect in every college and locality until April 14.

KTR launched a scathing attack on Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, accusing him of resorting to intimidation wh...