BRS leaders, including KTR and Harish Rao, were initially placed under house arrest but later allowed to board city buses to stage the ‘Chalo Bus Bhavan’ protest against the RTC fare hike. Police detained some leaders en route, delaying their movement.

Hyderabad: In a dramatic escalation of tensions between the government and the opposition, the police on Thursday morning placed several senior BRS leaders, including working president KT Rama Rao and former minister T Harish Rao, under house arrest ahead of the party’s ‘Chalo Bus Bhavan’ protest against the RTC fare hike. However, they were allowed to leave, after they clarified that they intended only to submit a memorandum to TGRTC authorities on bus fare hike.

The protest was planned to demand an immediate rollback of the increased bu

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