"padi-kaushik-reddy"

The Minister also said Huzurabad MLA Padi Kaushik Reddy had “lost his mind”. “There is a mad fellow in Huzurabad. The Huzurabad MLA keeps disrupting the Assembly proceedings by clapping and shouting in the House,” Surekha said.

Interestingly, the Chief Minister’s statement came barely hours after several BRS leaders including T Harish Rao, G Jagadish Reddy, Padi Kaushik Reddy and others were arrested in Hyderabad

Huzurabad MLA Kaushik Reddy had reached the police station along with BRS leaders to lodge a complaint against Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy and Intelligence Chief B Shivadhar Reddy, alleging that his phone was being tapped. However, the situation escalated when the MLA noticed Inspector Raghavendra leaving the station.

Kaushik Reddy reminded that his Huzurabad constituency was chosen as a pilot project under former Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao's leadership, with the first installment benefitting many Dalit families.

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.

Kamalakar, who visited Kaushik Reddy in hospital in Karimnagar, asked what was wrong in protesting when the State government had denied the dalits their rightful financial assistance

Former Minister Harish Rao expressed his outrage over the police attack on MLA Kaushik Reddy.

"All our MLAs are waiting. We have not been called yet, but we are ready to give our samples" said, Padi Kaushik Reddy

The Court had on September 8 instructed the Speaker to decide on the pleas within four weeks, cautioning that failure to do so would result in the case being reopened suo moto.

The BRS chief reportedly assured to hold an extensive party meeting shortly to discuss and decide about the party's future course of action.

"Mr Over Smart Minister, according to your logic, is your 'Chittanaidu' (Chief Minister Revanth Reddy) still in TDP or has he fully crossed over to Congress? Even if we assume that you are right, who is the fool who went to our BRS MLA's homes and welcomed them into his party with the Congress scarves? Why such shameless politics?" he asked.

Blames the incompetent Chief Minister, who also holds the home portfolio, for the current state of affairs

A group of individuals, led by Congress MLA Gandhi, trespassed into the house of Kaushik Reddy on Thursday and vandalized furniture and other belongings, following a confrontation between Gandhi and Kaushik Reddy.

In the last 10 years, the BRS chief had infused discipline among all the leaders and ensured there were no cheap remarks or use of foul language, says Arekapudi Gandhi

Harish Rao placed under house arrest in Nanakramguda, P Sabita Indra Reddy in Srinagar Colony and Talasani Srinivas Yadav in West Maredpally

In Zaheerabad, party leaders Nama Ravi Kiran, Bandi Mohan and several other leaders were taken into custody early on Friday

The biased approach of the police, in fact, was visible right from morning, when they placed Kaushik Reddy under house arrest to prevent him from reaching Serilingampally MLA Arekapudi Gandhi's residence

Tensions rose when Kaushik Reddy and Gandhi engaged in a heated exchange, with Reddy promising to visit Gandhi and present him with a BRS scarf, as well as hoist a BRS flag at Gandhi's Hyderabad residence on Thursday. In response, the police placed Kaushik Reddy under house arrest and increased security at Gandhi's residence.

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.

The petitioners and BRS MLAs Padi Kaushik Reddy and KP Vivekananda urged Speaker Gaddam Prasad to act against the defectors immediately.