The chief of the YSR Telangana Party was on Sunday taken into preventive custody by the state police in connection with her alleged derogatory remarks about a Bharat Rashtra Samithi MLA, PTI reported.
YS Sharmila allegedly made the remarks about Mahabubabad MLA Banoth Shankar Naik on Saturday during her ongoing state-wide march.
The Telangana Police filed a case against the YSRTP chief under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act in connection with the remarks. The complainant, a local BRS leader, accused her of insulting the Mahabubabad MLA, who belongs to a Scheduled Tribe.
Sharmila will be shifted to Hyderabad for her own safety, an unidentified senior police official told PTI.
Earlier on Sunday, members of the BRS held a sit-in protest in the Mahabubabad district seeking action against the YSRTP chief, ANI reported.
Some protestors shouted slogans of “Go Back Sharmila” and burned hoardings of her party.
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