A BRS delegation led by former irrigation minister T Harish Rao was on Thursday stopped by police from visiting the accident site of the Srisailam Left Bank Canal (SLBC) near Domalapenta in the Nagarkurnool district of Telangana.
The ‘red book’ of TDP leader Nara Lokesh in which he noted the so-called illegal acts of government officials during the YSRCP regime in Andhra Pradesh, seems to have caught the imagination of the Opposition in Telangana as well.
Participating in a programme at the Congress headquarters, Gandhi Bhavan, Reddy aggressively attacked his rivals in his customary style.
As Rahul Gandhi’s visit to Warangal, slated for tomorrow, stands cancelled, BRS leaders attributed the move to the groundswell against Congress. They say the party sensed the mood of the people who feel betrayed by the policies of the Congress government in Telangana.
AAP’s defeat in Delhi sparked a war of words between Congress and the BRS in Telangana with KT Rama Rao attacking Rahul Gandhi over the poll results.
The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) claimed the case was registered due to political vindictiveness since he was quite vocal against Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy.
At a meeting here with BJP MPs and legislators from the state, he said the BJP's presence in the state is increasing since the people of Telangana are fed up with the Congress dispensation.
In a huge relief to the dissident BRS MLAs ,the Telangana High Court has set aside an order of a single-judge bench which had directed the Speaker to announce within four weeks a schedule to decide on the disqualification petition against three MLAs who had joined the Congress.
However, the BRS soon released a hand-written letter from the arrested former MLA addressed to the court in which he said the remand report was cooked up by the police and denied that he had given any such confession.
A day after the attack on district officials including the collector in Vikarabad district of Telangana, police have taken into custody around 55 people while a BRS youth wing leader was on the run for allegedly instigating the “pre-planned attack”.
