Hyderabad: Legislators of Bharatiya Janata Party were taken into custody when they held protest at the entrance of Chief Minister K C...
Hyderabad: Legislators of Bharatiya Janata Party were taken into custody when they held protest at the entrance of Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s office in C-Block of Secretariat, here on Tuesday. The Legislators, led by Telangana BJP unit president G Kishan Reddy and floor leader Dr K Lakshman, arrived at the State Secretariat to meet the Chief Minister.
They claimed that they had an appointment at 11 am with CM. However, KCR was not present in the office, when the BJP legislators arrived at the designated time. Angered by this, the BJP legislators staged a sit-in protest at the CMO's entrance. Kishan Reddy alleged that the MLAs from the twin cities were not being involved in the Swachh Hyderabad campaign being launched by the Telangana Government from May 16 to 20.
Police forcefully removing the protesting BJP MLAs in front of the Chief Minister’s Office at the Secretariat in Hyderabad on Tuesday. (Right) BJP State president G Kishan Reddy raising slogans as he is being taken away by the police
He said that the elected representatives of Hyderabad were not being given due importance by the State Government. He said that the BJP legislators wanted to the meet KCR to discuss the issue. However, the Chief Minister did not come to the office only to avoid the meeting, he alleged. Later, Hyderabad Police took Kishan Reddy, Lakshman, NVSS Prabhakar, Raja Singh and MLC Ramchandra Rao into custody and shifted them to a nearby police station.
