Hyderabad, March 9 -- Over a dozen former sarpanches held a shirtless protest at the Suryapet District Collectorate on Monday, March 9, accusing the state government of not clearing the bills of the developmental works they had carried out in their term.

The former sarpanches held placards and made a sit-in at the main entrance of the collectorate sans their shirts, demanding the Congress government to deliver the promise it made before the 2023 Assembly elections and the gram panchayat elections held in 2025 on clearing their bills.

They said that many of them had borrowed money from private money lenders to carry out various developmental works in their villages during the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) government, for which they were y...