HYDERABAD: Scores of Congress leaders across the state were placed under house arrest on Thursday as a preventive measure as PCC chief A. Revanth Reddy appeared before the SIT investigating the TSPSC paper leak case.
Terming it a suppression of Opposition voices, Revanth strongly condemned the action. Some of the leaders who tried to hold demonstrations at SIT office at Himayatnagar were rounded up.
Tension prevailed near the SIT office when the party leaders tried to break through the police barricades placed for preventing Congress workers. Most of those who reached before Revanth could arrive started sloganeering against the government. They tried to hold a demonstration, prompting police to detain them. Corporator P. Vijaya Reddy was taken into custody.
“Rather than focusing on the administration, the ruling party is indulging in harassing the Opposition leaders who are questioning. Voices questioning the maladministration are being scuttled. They will definitely have to pay back,” she said.
Former MP V. Hanumantha Rao, former minister Mohammed Ali Shabbir, senior Congress leader Mallu Ravi, Khairatabad DCC president C. Rohin Reddy, PCC general secretary Addanki Dayakar, Mahila Congress state president M. Sunitha Rao were amongst those who were placed under house arrest.
Revanth asserted that they will continue to fight till the unemployed youth gets justice. “We witnessed high drama of BRS in front of the ED office in Delhi and here Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao tries to suppress the protests of the opposition. The arrests of our leaders and cadre is highly condemnable in the context that I have been asked to appear today at the SIT office to give evidence on the TSPSC paper leak based on my statements,” Revanth tweeted.
