Unprecedented security arrangements were made for Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s visit on Monday.
Anticipating protests, the police made arrests and house arrests across the district.
DCC president N. Rajender Reddy was kept under house arrest while scores of Anganwadi and CPI(M) workers were arrested in Jangaon town.
The media personnel were not allowed anywhere near the Chief Minister. They were made to sit outside the meeting hall where the review meeting was going on. A reporter belonging to an electronic media channel was summoned, detained for a while, and later let off last night after taking an assurance that he would not stage a protest during the Chief Minster’s visit.
At the DPRO in Hanamkonda, scores of reporters belonging to small newspapers staged a protest alleging that they were denied passes to cover the Chief Minister’s visit.
The police resorted to lathicharge when a group of ABVP students suddenly came in the way Chief Minister’s convoy at Hunter Road. The police were shocked to see students rushing in to stall the convoy when Mr. Rao was on his way to the residence of former Minister V. Laxmikantha Rao for lunch.
TDP MLA Errabelli Dayakar Rao described the house arrests and detaining of people as undemocratic.
