Congress protests over cheap liquor
DCC chief K. Mruthyunjayam and many other leaders were arrested for protesting
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2015-08-26 07:42 GMT
KARIMNAGAR: Tense situation prevailed when police resorted to punching cadres of the Congress with fists when they were staging a dharna against the state government’s move to introduce sale of liquor at cheaper prices in front of sub-collector’s office in Jagtial town on Tuesday. Jagtial MLA T. Jeevan Reddy, former civil supplies minister D. Sridhar Babu, ex-Karimnagar MP Ponnam Prabhakar and state Mahila Congress president N. Sharada, DCC chief K. Mruthyunjayam and many other leaders were arrested for protesting.
Activists and members of the Congress tried to lay siege to office of the sub-collector, opposing the TRS-led government’s decision to sell alcohol at considerably lower prices in order to abolish menace of illicit distilled liquor from rural parts. Some police officials thwarted this attempt by arresting leaders of the Congress. Allegedly, some of the workers of the party including women were dragged into jeeps.