YS Sharmila arrested over protest march in Hyderabad, gets bail

YSR Telangana Party founder Y S Sharmila was granted bail by a city court following her arrest by the police on November 29 for marching towards Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Raos official residence here to protest the alleged attack on her convoy by the ruling TRS cadre during her ongoing padayatraAccording to TV visuals during the march she was seen getting inside a damaged vehicle and was driving it but was stopped by the policeAfter she refused to step out of it the police brought a crane and towed away the vehicle as she was seated in itTelangana governor Tamilisai Soundararajan expressed anguish at the way Sharmila was arrested and concern about her safety and health condition a release from Raj Bhavan said on Tuesday nightThe visuals of Sharmilas car being towed away while she was inside it were disturbing the governor was quoted as saying in itAlso Read MLAs poaching case Arrested men planned to topple four nonBJP govts alleges KCRTamilisai stated that whatever may be the political background or ideology women leaders and cadres need to be treated in a more dignified and respectful way the release addedCondemning the alleged attack during the statewide padayatra called Praja Prasthanam undertaken by Sharmila in Warangal district on Monday the YSRT party chief along with her supporters took out a march towards Raos camp office to lay siege to it but were stopped by police on the wayLater Sharmila was taken into custody and shifted to a police station where a case was registered against themPolice accused Sharmila of driving her vehicle in a rash and negligent manner abusing cops and deterring them from discharging their dutyTaking exception to the case registered against his wife Sharmilas husband Anil said it was very very unfairWe are not criminalswe are peace loversShe Sharmila is a fighter he saidDenouncing the TRS governments attitude Sharmilas mother Y S Vijayamma said people and god would give a befitting reply to itThe protest march came a day after a caravan being used by Sharmila as part of her padayatra was attacked and set on fire allegedly by TRS activistsIn view of the law and order situation Sharmila was stopped in Warangal and sent back to Hyderabad with police escortProtesting the comments of Sharmila against the TRS MLA from Narsampet the ruling party activists gathered in large numbers and in order to prevent any law and order situation police dispersed both the TRS workers and YSR Telangana Party workersSharmila daughter of former chief minister of united Andhra Pradesh late Y S Rajasekhara Reddy and sister of current AP Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy undertook the foot march which has till date crossed the 3500 km mark spreading across 75 Assembly segments in Telangana the party saidThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever