Adilabad: BRS cadres protest against police action at Legislative Assembly

BRS cadres staged protests across erstwhile Adilabad district on Monday, condemning police action against party legislators at the Telangana Assembly. Former minister Jogu Ramanna led a rasta-roko in Adilabad, while similar protests were held in Utnoor, Nirmal, Mancherial and Asifabad

Adilabad: Condemning action of police at Telangana Legislative Assembly, BRS cadres staged protests across erstwhile Adilabad district on Monday.

In Adilabad, former minister Jogu Ramanna along with the cadres staged a rasta-roko criticizing the police for preventing BRS MLAs from entering the Assembly and misbehaving with women legislators of the party. He slammed the Congress for using the police to suppress the voice of the Opposition. He said that police stopped the legislators as per oral instructions.

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Ramanna termed the police action as a black day in the history of the Assembly. He stated that electors would teach a lesson to the Congress for adopting anti-public policies. He demanded it to strive hard for fulfilling poll promises instead of indulging in diversion of attention from its failures. He was detained for staging the protest. He was shifted to a nearby police station.

BRS leader Johnson Naik took part in a similar protest held in Utnoor. He flayed the Congress for preventing entry of the legislators into the Assembly. He opined that the Congress stopped the legislators fearing its flaws would be exposed if the MLAs attended proceedings and raised their voice against the government. He said that the government’s insecurity reflected through police action

Meanwhile, similar widespread protests and rallies were organized in Nirmal, Mancherial and Kumram Bheem Asifabad districts, rebuking the government with police manhandling the BRS MLAs at the Assembly gate. Local public representatives and leaders of the party took part in the protests. The participants raised slogans against the government for ill-treating the legislators, in particular women MLAs.