TDP leaders confined to homes ahead of protest at Rushikonda
The Hindu
‘State govt. should clarify why Haritha Resort was demolished on the hill’
A number of senior Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leaders, including Visakhapatnam (East) MLA Velagapudi Ramakrishna Babu and State president of TNSF (Telugu Nadu Students Federation) Pranav Gopal, were detained at home by the police ahead of the scheduled protest near the erstwhile Haritha Resort of the APTDC at Rushikonda, here on Wednesday.
The city police set up pickets in front of their houses, as early as 5 a.m., and did not allow the leaders to come out.
However, TDP Visakhapatnam Parliamentary Constituency president Palla Srinivasa Rao and former Minister Bandaru Satyanaryana were able to reach the site with a some supporters. But they were not allowed inside and they staged a protest on the road.