00:00Okay, from the Tamil Nadu Assembly, let's shift over to the Telangana Assembly.
00:03Thousand days of the Revant government was marked by a whole lot of drama outside the gates of the Assembly.
00:09As BRS MLAs, led by KT Rama Rao, attempted to enter wearing black T-shirts.
00:15They were immediately stopped at the gates of the Assembly.
00:18They were detained, including KTR, who was blocked off and literally carried off and taken into custody.
00:24Now, the police say that there were inappropriate slogans written on the T-shirts,
00:28and that's why they refused to allow them to enter the Assembly.
00:31But let's get you details of this political freeze-off.
00:50Black T-shirts, police barricades, high drama and detentions.
01:03A full-blown political face-off outside the Telangana Assembly.
01:11BRS Working President KT Rama Rao, former minister T. Harish Rao and other BRS MLAs arrived
01:18wearing black T-shirts as a mark of protest against the Revant Reddy-led Congress government,
01:24which completed 1,000 days in office recently.
01:27But they did not make it inside.
01:31The police stopped the BRS leaders at the Assembly gates and soon the protests turned into a showdown.
01:42The leaders were detained.
01:45KTR then escalated the allegations, claiming police manhandled him and other BRS leaders.
01:57He was seen showing bruise marks, which he claimed were caused during the police action.
02:23The BRS also alleged that main police officers pulled former home minister and BRS MLA,
02:29Sabita Indra, ready, by the neck.
02:31The police, however, rejected these charges.
02:37We have requested them to go inside the Assembly with regular dresses, without slogans, derogatory slogans.
02:46So they have not complied with it.
02:48So we had to leave them.
02:50The allegations regarding saree and all, they are not correct.
02:52You can verify the footages.
02:55And from the Assembly gates, the political attack quickly moved to the bigger question of the Congress government's performance.
03:26The Telangana Congress hit back, calling KTR and BRS leaders hooligans.
03:33Protesting is a democratic right.
03:35Anyone can protest.
03:36But it is the responsibility of the legislatures to give respect to the chair, speaker and chairman.
03:42Using abusive language against the speaker is absolutely wrong.
03:45And KCR, yesterday in his BRS LP meeting, did he train them to talk in such a way?
03:52With BRS turning the thousand-day mark into a political charge sheet and allegations flying thick and fast,
03:58the question now is, can the Congress government defuse the attack?
04:02Or will this protest mark the beginning of a fresh political battle in Telangana?
04:10With Abdul Bashir, Bureau Report, India Today.
