Tension prevailed as senior Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leaders and Mahila wing members were detained by the city police from staging protests against the arrest of TDP national president N. Chandrababu Naidu.
Former MLA & TDP Visakhapatnam Parliamentary Constituency president Palla Srinivasa Rao, Visakhapatnam (East) MLA Velagapudi Ramakrishna Babu who had arrived at the Mahatma Gandhi Statue near the GVMC main office to stage protest being organised by the TDP leaders were forcibly shifted to III Town police station by police force. Along with them, a number of Mahila wing leaders were also detained and shifted to various police stations.
