High alert: TDP leaders detained, RTC buses confined to depots, police forces mobilised in Vizag
The Hindu
TDP leaders arrested/shifted to police station following arrest of N Chandrababu Naidu. Ganta Srinivasa Rao, Bandaru Satyanarayana Murthy, Palla Srinivasa Rao, PGVR Naidu, V. Anitha arrested/shifted. RTC buses stopped, students face inconvenience. Police forces mobilised to prevent violence.
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All the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leaders were either house arrested or shifted to police station, following arrest of former Chief Minister & TDP National President, N. Chandrababu Naidu.
Former Education Minister Ganta Srinivasa Rao was also arrested by a team of police, at his residence in the early morning and shifted to Disha Police Station at Yendada.
Speaking to the media, Mr. Ganta Srinivasa Rao said that Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy deliberately wants TDP chief N. Chandrababu Naidu behind the bars, just because he (Jagan) was in jail for over one-and-a- half year.
Mr. Naidu is one of the senior most politician in the country which includes 14 years as Chief Minister and over 10 years as main opposition leader. With lot of drama, he was being arrested at Nandyal, this is atrocious, he alleged.
Former MLA and TDP Minister Bandaru Satyanarayana Murthy was also arrested by a team of police at his residence and shifted to Atchutapuram police station. Before his arrest, speaking to media, Mr. Satyanarayana Murthy described Mr. Naidu’s arrest as a deliberate one and an act of revenge by the YSRCP. He also alleged that even after the murder of his uncle Y.S. Vivekananda Reddy, the main accused in the case, Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy is roaming freely. He demanded Union Minister Amit Shah to intervene into the incidents being reported from Andhra immediately.
Former MLA & Visakhapatnam Parliamentary Constituency president, Palla Srinivasa Rao was shifted to Visakhapatnam police commissionerate by a team of police form his residence at Gajuwaka.