9 Congress MPs from the Telangana region on Wednesday decided to surrender the security provided to them by the state government.
The MPs, including Telangana Congress Steering Committee convenor K Kesava Rao and 8 Lok Sabha MPs from the region, have announced the surrender of the gunmen provided to them by the city police.
The MPs conveyed the decision to Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, Home Minister P Sabitha Indira Reddy, DGP V Dinesh Reddy and PCC President Botsa Satyanarayana, by a common written letter.
The MPs' decision is in protest against a comment allegedly made by AP Police Officers Association president Chalapathi Rao, who said that the politicians would not survive without gunmen and that the security persons of the MLAs would resort to a "gun down" as shown in the film Operation Duryodhana.
Earlier, in protest against the same comments, all the 12 MLAs of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi, on 17 October, announced that they were surrendering their gunmen to the superintendents of police of their respective districts. They wrote letters to this effect to the SPs, asking them to take back the security provided to them. (INN)