HYDERABAD: High tension prevailed at the Ministers’ Quarters in Banjara Hills on Thursday when around 60 NSUI and Youth Congress workers tried to barge into the residence of Home Minister Mohammed Mahmood Ali. Shouting anti-government and anti-Home Minister slogans, in protest against the increasing attacks on Dalit women, the crowd forced its way through the main gates of the Ministers Quarters, despite security staff trying to prevent them. The pandemonium lasted for about an hour.
The trouble started at around 11.30 am when the crowd, led by Dalit Congress leader SA Sampath Kumar, NSUI president Balamuri Venkat, Youth Congress leader Anil Yadav reached the Ministers’ Quarters. Pushing the security guards aside, they squatted outside. After they threw open the main gate, police arrested all of them and took them to Goshamahal police station. Non-bailable cases were slapped on the youth activists and they were produced in court for judicial remand.
Covid-19 tests were conducted on all of them. The police listed Venkat as A1, Sampath Kumar as A2 and Anil Kumar as A3. Taking serious exception to the arrests, AICC in-charge of Telangana Manickam Tagore, TPCC president N Uttam Kumar Reddy and CLP leader M Bhatti Vikramarka, condemned the incident.
The non-bailable cases slapped against NSUI and Youth Congress workers include