Hyderabad: Telangana BC welfare minister Ponnam Prabhakar on Wednesday, October 8, visited the SC, ST welfare minister Adluri Laxman Kumar and apologised to him for the distress caused due to the former’s alleged ‘buffalo’ remark.

A controversy had broken out on October 5 after the BC welfare minister allegedly made the remark before a press conference pertaining to the Jubilee Hills by-elections.

Adluri Laxman, who is a Dalit, released a video on October 7, demanding an apology and saying that Ponnam Prabhakar had insulted his entire caste. He even threatened to take the matter to the Congress high command, Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge.

Following this, minister Ponnam Prabhakar issued a statement clarifying that he had never made such remarks and that a few peo

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