Kodangal (Telangana): Amid a high-octane campaign in Telangana for December 7 polls, Congress candidate from Kodangal and party’s working president from Telangana, Revanth Reddy, was detained and taken into preventive custody earlier on Tuesday.
Reddy was picked up by the Telangana police in the early hours of Tuesday, hours before scheduled meeting of caretaker chief minister and Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) supremo K Chandrasekhar Rao in Kodangal.
Reddy had threatened to stop the public meeting of KCR.
A large team of police personnel arrived at Reddy’s house and broke open the door before taking him into custody.The MLAs argued with cops, demanding that they be shown ID cards of the authorities and also copy of the arrest warrant.
The state election body, in a notice to the Congress party, said that Reddy had given a “protest call” to stop KCR’s campaign rally in Kodangal on December 2.