Harish Rao criticized the State’s law enforcement practices, alleging that FIRs were being drafted under political instructions rather than legal procedures. Police stations have turned into Congress party offices, he said.
The Telangana High Court has reserved its judgment on the appeals filed by the Telangana Assembly Secretary challenging the single judge’s order regarding disqualification petitions.
BRS leaders including Harish Rao were arrested and driven around in separate police buses for about three hours and kept in a police station for about two hours before being released.
BRS MLAs Padi Kaushik Reddy and KP Vivekananda demanded the defected MLAs to immediately resign from their posts and challenged them to win the bypolls.
In a statement, Harish Rao announced that the High Court's ruling upheld the disqualification of MLAs who defected from their parties, leading to by-elections in their constituencies. He expressed confidence that the BRS would win these bypolls and hoped that the Assembly Speaker would implement the High Court's decision within the next four weeks.
BRS MLA Mutha Gopal and other senior leaders filed the complaint against Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy for using abusive, defamatory, and unparliamentary language against former chief minister and BRS president K Chandrashekhar Rao on Tuesday.