Hyderabad, Sep 15 || A large number of policemen were deployed at the residence of Serilingampally MLA and Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Chairman Arekapudi Gandhi here on Sunday to prevent any untoward incident in view of the likely arrival of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leaders.
About 200 policemen were deployed around the residence of Gandhi, whose appointment as PAC Chairman sparked political tension between Opposition BRS and the ruling Congress party.
Police remained alert to prevent any law and order problems in view of reports that BRS leaders were planning to hold a meeting at Gandhi’s residence.
Deployment of police personnel amid continuing tension between Congress and BRS was causing inconvenience to people living around Gandhi’s house in Vivekananda Nagar.
BRS leaders were placed under house arrest on Friday to foil their plan to gather at Gandhi’s house in retaliation to the attack on BRS MLA P. Kaushik Reddy’s house by Gandhi’s supporters on Thursday.
A bitter war of words between Kaushik Reddy and Gandhi turned ugly when the latter, along with his supporters, reached the BRS MLA’s house in Kondapur and dared him to come out. Gandhi, who defected from BRS to Congress in July, resorted to the action after Kaushik Reddy declared that he would go to Gandhi’s house, hoist the BRS flag, and offer him a BRS scarf.
Kaushik Reddy, the BRS MLA from Huzurabad in Karimnagar district, had thrown the challenge after Gandhi claimed that he was still with BRS. The defected MLA made the claim to counter criticism by the BRS over his appointment as PAC Chairman by the Assembly Speaker.