Telangana Congress leaders had been positioned beneath home arrest by the police in Hyderabad on Monday forward of their deliberate protest over the issues confronted by sarpanches.

Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president A. Revanth Reddy, vice-president Mallu Ravi and different leaders had been positioned beneath home arrest

Police personnel had been deployed exterior the residence of Revanth Reddy in Jubilee Hills to forestall him from leaving for Indira Park for main the dharna as police have denied permission for a similar.

One other TPCC chief Mahesh Kumar Goud was additionally positioned beneath home arrest by the police.

The opposition social gathering has condemned the home arrests of its leaders. It expressed its dismay over police denying permission for the day-long dharna.

Revanth Reddy took to Twitter to slam Chief Minister Ok. Chandrasekhar Rao. “CM doesn’t come out of Pragati Bhavan nor frequent man has entry to it. If we query, we face instances & home arrests. Police surrounded my home & all essential leaders to forestall from a dharna in opposition to the plight of Sarpanchs within the state. Democracyawhere are you!?,” he wrote with a video of policemen exterior his home

The Congress social gathering has already introduced that it will go forward with the dharna regardless of denial of permission by the police.

Earlier, Mallu Ravi decried the choice of police to not give permission for the dharna. He stated this was surprising because the social gathering had not sought permission for rasta roko or laying siege to the Meeting. “We needed to carry a peaceable dharna at a delegated place,” he stated and identified that Dharna Chowk at Indira Park was established for the very objective of democratic protests by individuals.

The Congress chief alleged that the state authorities was denying funds to panchayats and this was affecting the event of villages. He had appealed to sarpanches throughout the state to converge on the dharna website to specific their resentment in opposition to the federal government’s callous angle in offering funds meant for villages.

The Congress social gathering stated it had been protesting to spotlight the issues in 12,750 panchayats of Telangana and the unfair remedy to the elected sarpanches.

Sarpanches, who largely owe allegiance to the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), have been expressing concern over not receiving authorities funds for a 12 months. Dozens of them have come ahead to submit their resignations.