BRS leaders were heard chanting the slogan “ED Modi ek hai”
Published Date – 16 March 2024, 12:52 PM
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Siddipet: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leaders on Thursday staged protests in several parts of Telangana over the arrest of party MLC K Kavitha by the Enforcement Directorate in the alleged Delhi excise policy-linked money laundering case.
The leaders held a protest at Siddipet’s old bus stand. However, police detained the protestors.
Local BRS MLAs Rajashekar Reddy and Laxma Reddy held a protest in Hyderabad at Uppal Radhika X Roads and Malkajgiri X Roads with their followers.
BRS leaders were heard chanting the slogan “ED Modi ek hai”.
Police on the spot detained them and shifted them to local police station.
Meanwhile, K Kavitha who was arrested from her residence in Bajara Hills Hyderabad on Friday was produced before Rouse Avenue Court in the national capital on Saturday.
The MLC and the daughter of BRS founder and former Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, was arrested after a day-long questioning followed by a raid at her Hyderabad residence on Friday.
Appearing before Rouse Avenue Court, Kavitha told reporters that “it is an illegal arrest” The action comes almost two months after the ED issued a summons to the 45-year-old BRS leader.
She was questioned thrice in this case last year, with the central agency recording her statement under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
