Rally Arrests: Congress Flays "Despotic" KCR

The Leader Of Opposition in the Telangana Legislative Council Mohammed Ali Shabbir today termed the police action against the unemployed youth rally (Nirudyogula Rally) as an undemocratic and despotic act by the KCR government to foil a people's movements.

Addressing a press conference on the police "zulum" on unemployed youth in the rally by the T-JAC, he said that the youth had been hounded like animals from their homes and dragged into police vans like criminals.

The students and unemployed youth were then beaten up, and put in cells in police stations all over Hyderabad like petty criminals, just for asking the government to fulfill its poll promise of providing two lakh jobs.

Shabbir Ali demanded a white paper on the status of vacancies in the government and also on the jobs created by the TRS government since 2014, as also on the promise of a stipend to be given to the unemployed youth in the state.

The LOP said that it was a travesty of justice, and political oppression, when the Telangana police arrested former Secunderabad MP Anjan Kumar Yadav who had gone to meet the T-JAC Chairman M Kodandaram at the Kamatipura police station.

"Vamshi Chand Reddy, an MLA who was planning to visit the Dindi project, was also arrested by the police. KCR cannot stem the youth movement with arrests and political repression," he said.

CLP leader K Jana Reddy, too, opined that not giving permission to the proposed rally by the Telangana JAC was injustice.

Reddy said that everyone had the right to express their opinion in a democracy, and violation of such a primary right was not correct on the part of the government.

No government had behaved in a vengeful manner towards students, he said, and demanded that the state government release the leaders and students unconditionally.