Police rein in BJP leaders prompting them to approach EC
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Senior occasion members decry ‘high-handedness’ and extreme use of pressure by police.
BJP’s high brass, together with metropolis president and MLC N. Ramchander Rao, have been put beneath home arrest whereas different senior leaders have been detained at police station as police tried to thwart the occasion’s efforts to take up protests towards the police raids on Dubbaka candidate M. Raghunandan Rao’s home on Tuesday.
While occasion president Bandi Sanjay Kumar continued his quick at his home at Karimnagar, occasion chief G. Manohar Reddy was arrested on the Saidabad police station. Police personnel additionally surrounded Nizamabad MP D. Aravind’s home to stop him from popping out.
A delegation of the occasion management together with N. Indrasena Reddy is scheduled to meet the Chief Electoral Officer later in the day and lodge an official grievance towards the police. Siddipet district collector Venkatrami Reddy has already been shifted following costs of “misuse” of official equipment and Mancherial collector Bharati Hollekeri given his costs.
Senior leaders like nationwide BC morcha president K. Laxman, former MP Vivek Venkataswamy, D.K. Aruna, Babu Mohan and others strongly criticised the police motion towards the occasion leaders. It solely mirrored the Government’s worry of dropping the byelection, they noticed.
Chief spokesperson Krishnasagaar Rao has denounced the “highhanded behaviour” of the police in the direction of Mr. Sanjay Kumar and others. “If the police had any grounds for his arrest, they could have very well done it without using force. The videos on social media clearly show excessive force used by police”, he mentioned.
Mr. Rao requested if the police have been appearing independently or with the permission of the Election Commission. The stage enjoying discipline is lacking in the present marketing campaign and therefore, the CEO ought to look into the matter, he added.
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