To avoid being taken into house arrest ahead of the ‘Chalo Secretariat’ protest at Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh Congress Chief YS Sharmila, who is also the sister of YSRCP leader and Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy, spent the night at the Congress office.
Taking to X Sharmila she wrote: If we call for a protest on behalf of the unemployed, will you make attempts to keep us under house arrests? Do we not have the right to protest in a democracy? Isn’t it a shame that I, being a woman, am forced to avoid the police and spend the night in the office of the Congress party to avoid house arrest?.
“Are we terrorists..or anti-social forces? They are trying to stop us… It means they are afraid of us. They are trying to cover up their incompetence, the real fact. Even if they try to stop us, stop our workers everywhere or tie them with barricades, the struggle on behalf of the unemployed will not stop.
Today, YS Sharmila took to X to say that several police officials have been deployed outside Congress office in Vijayawada and that barricades have been put up. She says they’re forcibly being held hostage, unable to come out, and several cadres have also been picked up by police.
Demanding that the state government address the problems being faced by unemployed youths and students, the Congress has given a call for ‘Chalo Secretariat’ protest.
Speaking to the media at Andhra Ratna Bhavan in Vijayawada, Sharmila said the Andhra Pradesh government has failed in addressing important issues of youth, unemployed, and students in the last five years.
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