Cong attempts to lay siege to CM's house foiled,scores held

Scores of Congress workers were on Monday taken into preventive custody in the city and other districts as they tried to lay siege to Pragathi Bhavan, Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Raos official residence complex-cum-camp office here, seeking immediate resolution to the ongoing indefinite strike by RTC employees, police said.

The Congress had earlier set a deadline of October 19 for the Telangana government to resolve the stir, failing which it would lay siege to the office for October 21 and had given a Chalo Pragathi Bhavan call accordingly, following which police had made elaborate security arrangements.

Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee working president and Malkajgiri MP A Revanth Reddy, former MP Anjan Kumar Yadav and several other senior leaders and scores of party workers were taken into preventive custody near Pragathi Bhavan and shifted to different police stations in the city, police said.

"Attempts (by Congress) to lay siege to the Pragathi Bhavan has been foiled," a senior police official told PTI.

Congress Legislature Party leader MalluBhattiVikramarkaand several senior Congress leaders were put under "house arrest."