Illegal house arrests can't stop us: BJP

Hyderabad: Telangana BJP chief N Ramachander Rao strongly condemned the illegal house arrest of him and party workers across the state for peaceful protests against the ‘anti-Bharat’ summit being organised by the ruling Congress and Rahul Gandhi’s visit. Addressing the media on Saturday, after the police had been deployed at his residence since 6am and he was kept under house arrest, Rao lashed out at the state government's authoritarian stance.

Rao alleged that the 'Bharat Summit' being organised in Hyderabad is not a conference to bring investments to the state, but a programme by the Congress to discuss internal political situation in India with the foreigners.

He said, “It is outrageous that the Telangana government, which does not care about state's farmers, is spending public money to sponsor this programme.” He alleged that the conference is being organised to mislead people by giving the world false information about India and Prime Minister

Narendra Modi.

Rao clarified that more than half of those who came from abroad to the conference had previously exhibited anti-India stance. Referring to Norwegian journalist Helle Ling, who had written five articles against India and PM Modi and posted on Twitter that her visa was cancelled 10 minutes ago, the BJP chief questioned: “Why were those who write anti-national articles invited to the conference?”

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