High drama prevailed here on Thursday as Union Minister and Telangana BJP president G Kishan Reddy along with other party leaders sat on the road after being stopped by police from proceeding to inspect a site of the BRS government's housing scheme for the poor.
Kishan Reddy sat on the road in Outer Ring Road miffed at being prevented from heading to the housing site.
"Am I a criminal? Am I a terrorist? I have a right to go anywhere in India," Kishan Reddy told Commissioner of Rachakonda Police D S Chauhan who tried to persuade the Union Minister and other leaders to vacate the place.
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐๐ฅ ๐๐ผ๐๐, ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐บ๐ฒ ๐๐ถ๐น๐น ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐๐๐ผ๐ฝ ๐๐๐ฃ ๐ถ๐ป ๐ณ๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฎ๐ด๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป๐๐ ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฎ๐ฟ ๐ฟ๐๐น๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ผ๐๐
โ G Kishan Reddy (@kishanreddybjp) July 20, 2023
Our fight will last until every homeless gets home in Telangana.
Our fight will continue for the peopleโsโฆ pic.twitter.com/TtrfKYnDGR
Kishan Reddy was later physically lifted by police and taken away from the place to a vehicle.
He had announced a plan to visit the state government's two bedroom housing site at Batasingaram here.
Kishan Reddy had earlier condemned the "house arrest" of BJP leaders by police in view of the planned visit to the two bedroom housing site.
"The house-arrest of @BJP4Telangana leaders ahead of the visit to the housing construction site at Batasingaram Village in R Rdist, Telangana is highly condemnable. It yet again exposes the tyrannical rule under BRS. High-handedness and muzzling of opposition voice has become the hallmark of KCR govt," Reddy tweeted on Thursday morning.
The house arrest of @BJP4Telangana leaders ahead of the visit to the housing construction site at Batasingaram Village in R R dist, Telangana is highly condemnable. It yet again exposes the tyrannical rule under BRS.
โ G Kishan Reddy (@kishanreddybjp) July 20, 2023
High-handedness and muzzling of opposition voice has becomeโฆ pic.twitter.com/8B8aiF3Q0r
BJP sources said party MLA Eatala Rajender and former MLC Ramachandra Rao were among the leaders kept under house arrest.
The saffron party said a 60-member delegation led by Kishan Reddy, Union Minister of Culture, including present and former MLAs and MPs, are visiting Bata Singaram village to inspect the ongoing two-bedroom project today.