Congress Leaders Arrested For Dharna At Inter Board

The Opposition parties' plan to lay siege to the Board of Intermediate Education (BIE) office at Nampally on Monday to protest the Intermediate results fiasco was successful.

Leaders and activists of the Congress, the CPI, the Jana Sena and other parties staged a dharna before the Board office and raised slogans against the officials and the State government. The police then intervened and took several Congress leaders into preventive custody. Among those arrested were former ministers G Geetha Reddy and Mohammad Ali Shabbir, Ponnam Prabhakar, V Hanumantha Rao, Manavata Roy and former MLA Kuna Srisailam Goud.

CPI State secretary Chada Venkat Reddy and Telangana TDP State president L Ramana were also arrested and sent to police stations.

The leaders arrested were whisked away to nearby police stations.

Speaking at the Board office, the Opposition leaders demanded that the government take stern action against the responsible officials of the Board. They also demanded that the State government take action against Globarena, the company that handled the evaluation and results and is the prime accused in the controversy.

Meanwhile, other Congress party leaders addressed a letter to Telangana State Election Commissioner V Nagi Reddy urging him to issue directions to the police to release all the Congress leaders, including MPTC and ZPTC candidates, who had been kept under house arrest. They complained to the SEC that the Congress leaders were arrested with an intention to prevent them from taking part in the dharna program called for by the party to lay siege to the BIE office.