Y S Sharmila, sister of Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan reddy and president of newly-formed YSR Telangana Party, was on Tuesday arrested by the Telangana police for defying the police orders.
As part of her schedule of taking up deeksha in solidarity with the unemployed youth, Sharmila proposed to stage a 12-hour fast at Boduppal exhibition grounds on the outskirts of Hyderabad, after calling on the family of Ravindra, an unemployed youth who committed suicide out of distress at Peerjadiguda.
However, the Rachakonda police said there was no permission for Sharmila’s deeksha at Boduppal and when she tried to reach the place, she was taken into custody. She was shifted to Medipally police station on the Hyderabad-Warangal highway.
A large number of YSRTP workers staged a dharna in front of the police station demanding that she be released immediately and given permission to hold the deeksha at Boduppal grounds. Later, she was shifted to Ghatkesar police station.
Speaking to media later, Sharmila alleged that the KCR government had taken the lives of hundreds of the unemployed youth by not filling up job vacancies.
When she was trying to take up fast to highlight the plight of the unemployed youth, the government was using the brutal police force to crush her movement.
She also pulled up the main opposition parties – Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party – for ignoring the plight of the unemployed youth.
“They have been sleeping all these days and are now trying to cheat the people in the name of Garjanas. They have become stooges of the TRS,” she criticised.
