Minister for Handlooms and Textiles P. Shankar Rao, who is frequently in the limelight for doing something unusual, was in the thick of action again on Saturday when he sat in dharna on the main road in front of the Secretariat where the members of the Telangana Non-Gazetted Officers Association were already staging a protest.

Dr. Shankar Rao took the onlookers and security personnel by surprise when he squatted on the road in support of the employees who went on a flash protest against the alleged misbehaviour of police officials against women staff members.

The police officers reportedly stopped TNGOs Association members who were invited for talks by the Cabinet Sub-Committee to end the non-cooperation movement by the employees.