HYDERABAD: Warangal police restrained the BJP from conducting a press conference on Friday.
Police reached the venue at a private hotel in Warangal saying that a press conference cannot be held according to the poll code, following which a visibly enraged Eatala Rajender, the BJP candidate for the Huzurabad bypoll, left the venue saying “the state government can do whatever it wants, but I will be with people”.
Enraged over the development, state BJP leaders G Vivek and G Premendar Reddy, who were part of the press conference, slammed the police. “When TRS leaders and ministers can talk to the media, why are we not allowed to do the same,” they questioned.
Later during the day, Eatala’s vehicle was also checked by police while he was travelling in the constituency.
TRS leaders including agriculture minister Singireddy Niranjan Reddy countered the BJP’s allegations saying that in Huzurabad everything is under the control of the ECI.
“These are cheap tactics by the BJP. Even TRS leaders’ vehicles and houses were searched, there is no way the state government can do anything in the constituency. The officials are working under the supervision of ECI,” Niranjan Reddy said.
