Congress chief A. Revanth Reddy accused the police of provoking the Congress cadre to create violence on the direction of the state government to impress Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Speaking to reporters at Bolarum police station where he was taken after his arrest, he termed the police ‘highhandedness’ as the reason for injuries to Congress workers and leaders, and demanded the Chief Minister, K. Chandrashekhar Rao to order an inquiry immediately into the role of some police officers.
“We have been protesting for the last four days peacefully. But the sudden eruption of violence today was pre-planned and seems to be the handiwork of some police officers to defame and demoralise the Congress workers realising that these protests would continue”, he claimed.
