Black T-shirts stopped; Congress’s answers still missing
BRS legislators, including K.T. Rama Rao and T. Harish Rao, were detained outside the Telangana Assembly as protests over the Congress government’s 1,000-day record spread across the state.
A police cordon outside the Telangana Assembly during protests over the government’s 1,000-day record.
BRS legislators, including K.T. Rama Rao and T. Harish Rao, were stopped at the Telangana Assembly gates on September 7 while wearing black T-shirts carrying slogans about the Congress government’s 1,000 days in office. They were later detained, with reports differing on the exact number and where they were taken. The paperwork, apparently, was less coordinated than the police cordon.
Protests and further detentions were reported in Hyderabad, Medchal, Suryapet, Nalgonda, Siddipet, Karimnagar and Jogulamba Gadwal. The BRS had announced a week-long campaign against the Congress government’s record. KTR alleged that “a thousand days later, not one” of Congress’s promises had been honoured; that remains a political claim, not an independently verified finding.
BRS legislators also alleged that police used force during the confrontation. The Telangana High Court was reported to have directed the DGP to act against police officials over alleged manhandling of women legislators and submit a report. The court order itself was not available in the material reviewed. No direct police statement explaining the detentions or answering the force allegations was found. The Congress government has produced a cordon, but not yet a convincing account of what it was protecting.