In an unusual turn, the Sircilla sub-divisional police have detained District Congress Committee president K Mrutyunjayam and
made preventive house arrest in Mustabad mandal on Thursday following the tour programme of Minister for Panchayat Raj and IT K Taraka Rama
Rao in Gambhiraopeta mandal. The DCC president was holding a meeting with the party rank and file in Mustabad mandal on Thursday. Following the visit of the Minister to the adjacent mandal, the police have made a preventive arrest of DCC president and refused him to move to the Gambhiraopeta mandal. Irked over the illegal arrest, the Congress rank and file have staged a rasta roko in the Mustabad mandal headquarters. However, the police have arrested the agitationists and shifted them to police station.
Talking to ‘The Hindu’, DCC president K Mruthyunjayam said that Minister K Taraka Rama Rao had ignored the local sarpanch and MPTC member, who belong to the Congress party, during the laying of foundation for the construction of panchayat building in the mandal headquarters. When the party leaders informed about the injustice to the Congress elected representatives, the DCC president had promised to visit the Gambhiraopeta mandal after the completion of the meeting in Mustabad.
When he was about to go to Gambhiraopeta mandal, the Sircilla police stated that they would make preventive arrest in the mandal. He flayed the Minister for neglecting elected representatives and converting official programmes as party meetings.
