Telangana Congress workers have taken to the streets after cyber police raided the party’s social media war room. Authorities raided the office of Congress chief election strategist Sunil Kanungolu on the night of December 13 after five FIRs were received against the party for allegedly running defamatory material against Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao. Sources said the police have also arrested three employees of the team, whose whereabouts are yet to be ascertained.
Calling KCR the “South Indian Hitler”, Congress leaders launched a two-pronged protest. While party workers protested police high-handedness in all mandals of Telangana, the party’s state unit chief Revanth Reddy and MP Uttam Kumar Reddy fought back. New Delhi. They said they would gherao the newly inaugurated Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) office in the national capital. Revanth addressed a press conference at the party headquarters in Delhi along with Congress Media and Publicity Department chief Pawan Khera.
At the same time, Congress MP Manickam Tagore also raised the issue in the ongoing session of the Lok Sabha. “The House should give priority to discuss the tyrannical attitude of the Telangana Police who have arrested 5 people who entered the Telangana Congress war room in Hyderabad yesterday. In the motion notice, Tagore said, the arrest was made without warrant or without any notice under 41A CrPC on the basis of a FB post against CM Telangana.
Revanth hit out at the Telangana government, saying that if KCR comes to power, it will not be a “farmers government” but a “liquor government”. “KCR’s family has a deep connection with liquor. His daughter Kavita is an accused in the Delhi liquor scam. After the TRS came to power in Telangana, the state government’s income from liquor increased from Rs 10,500 crore to Rs 36,000 crore. KCR also bought some of the leading media houses of Telangana to keep them under his control and hence Congress is using social media as a platform to question the government on public issues. The state police has claimed that there is a conspiracy to topple the government, but how can they search the war room of the Congress party without registering an FIR and without giving any notice?
MP Uttam Kumar Reddy said that such antics cannot be supported in a democracy. “This is absolutely ridiculous, this is nonsense. Are we living in India or North Korea or Pakistan? To put up a post about K Kavita’s involvement in the liquor scam, which is true, the police without any logic We will raise this in Parliament, protest across Telangana and gherao the BRS office.
Mallu Ravi, senior vice-president of the party’s Telangana unit, alleged that the raid was a cyber crime to steal the Congress’s election strategy. “Police stole computers to help strategist Sunil in election planning. The government knows that people are in favor of the Congress and they want to know about the schemes that we are going to implement.”
Earlier in the day, Manickam Tagore tweeted “derogatory” content that led to the raids and challenged the TRS to arrest him. The posters read: “Ab ki Baar, Sharaab Sarkar”. One of them depicts TRS leaders implicated in the fodder scam.
All these developments took place when KCR was inaugurating the BRS office in New Delhi.
Describing the raid as an attack on democracy, the Congress also filed a habeas corpus petition in the High Court.
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