Here’s Why BRS MLAs Came Handcuffed To Telangana Assembly [Watch]

Hyderabad: MLAs from the Opposition Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) on Tuesday arrived at the Telangana Assembly wearing black clothes and handcuffs as a mark of protest to demand justice for the arrested Lagcherla farmers.

A day before, the BRS legislators had reached the Assembly building holding placards and raising slogans over the handcuffing of one of the arrested farmers. BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao and senior leader T. Harish Rao were also among the MLAs who participated in the protest on Monday. They had been demanding the immediate release of all farmers.

What’s the case of farmer being handcuffed?

A farmer lodged in Sangareddy Jail was reportedly handcuffed when he was taken to a hospital as he complained of chest pain on December 12. The tribal farmer, identified as one Hirya Naik, was arrested in connection with the attack on officials during a public hearing on land acquisition for a pharma cluster in Lagacherla village of Vikarabad district.

Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy had ordered a probe into the incident of handcuffing of the farmer. The same day Sangareddy Central Prison Superintendent Santosh Roy and Jailer P. Sanjeeva Reddy were suspended, reported the Telangana Today.