Hyderabad:
The Revanth Reddy vs KT Rama Rao spat – which has included jabs over Telangana internet hosting the Miss World pageant and the arrest of two ladies journalists – continued Thursday with the Chief Minister’s remark about “16 harrowing nights in jail” in 2020, for flying a drone, when KTR’s social gathering was in energy.
Addressing the Meeting this afternoon, the Chief Minister declared he had been “unfairly arrested” and despatched to a high-security jail that additionally housed terrorists.
“For 16 days I used to be saved in solitary confinement… not allowed to see anybody. Even then, I swallowed my anger and continued working for the state’s welfare,” he stated, stating additionally the regulation solely prescribed a Rs 500 effective for the misdemeanour with which he had been charged.
He claimed his cell had vivid lights left on all evening and was unsanitary and unhygienic, and declared, “If wanted, I can take MLAs and ministers there to indicate them the fact.”
When launched, Mr Reddy claimed he slept below a tree to “get better from the ordeal”.
Mr Rao – who this month labelled the Chief Minister a “mad canine” – snapped again, asking his rival, “Did you go to jail for taking part within the freedom wrestle? If somebody flies a drone over your Jubilee Hills palace, and takes photographs of your spouse or youngsters… will you keep silent?”
“When it’s about your loved ones you react,” he thundered, referring to Mr Reddy’s outburst final week in opposition to social media posts that, the Chief Minister claimed, abused his relations.
Responding to the BRS’ condemnation of the arrest of the ladies journalists – who received bail, however not until every week after their arrest – Mr Reddy had stated, “… how lengthy ought to I be tolerant when dangerous language has been used in opposition to the ladies in my household?” and known as for offenders to be “stripped and paraded”.
The “16 harrowing nights” reference was to a case by which Revanth Reddy was accused of piloting a drone over KT Rama Rao’s farmhouse. Mr Reddy was arrested and jailed for 2 weeks.
Nonetheless, final week the Telangana Excessive Court docket quashed the grievance, noting first the world had not been declared a prohibited zone and there had been no point out of KTR or his farmhouse within the police grievance, and second, that the costs within the FIR referred to misapplied provisions.
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