Revanth Reddy put under house arrest
TPCC chief wrote letter to the Speaker of Lok Sabha
Hyderabad: Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) President and member of parliament from Malkajgiri constituency Revanth Reddy has been placed under house arrest on Monday.
ANI quoted his office claiming that he was to go to Delhi to attend the Parliament session, however, he was stopped from going out and police have been deployed outside his residence since 3 a.m. on Monday.
Informing about the house arrest, Reddy wrote a letter to the Speaker of Lok Sabha. In the letter, he wrote, “despite knowing the fact that I have to attend the Parliament session which is scheduled from today and repeated requests to the officials concerned, the Telangana State Police at the instance of Chief Minister, Chief Secretary, DGP has obstructed my discharge of duties as a Parliamentarian”.
“I was prevented from attending the Parliament which offends the Parliamentary privileges. During the progress of the session, the permission of the speaker is absolutely necessary to arrest the Parliamentarian, particularly when it is a political arrest”, he added.
