HYDERABAD: EC has barred former Telangana CM and BRS chief, K Chandrashekar Rao, from holding meetings, processions, rallies, shows and giving interviews to media for 48 hours from 8pm on Wednesday, reports U Sudhakarreddy.
The action came on a complaint by
Telangana Congress
. In a press meet in Sircilla on April 5,
KCR
had made a number of comments that were seen as derogatory and objectionable by Congress.
Telagana’s chief electoral officer had filed a report on the issue based on which a notice was issued to KCR on April 16. KCR had called Congressmen ‘lath-khors’ (a useless, lazy person). He made another comment in Telugu which roughly translates to: “We will bite your heads off if you don’t give Rs 500 as bonus (on MSP).” In its complaint,
Congress
had said KCR had threatened to kill. EC said KCR had violated the model code in past polls too.BRS in his reply said, “The officers in charge of election in Telangana and Sircilla are not Telugu and hardly understand the local dialect. The complaint is made by the Congress party by picking some sentences out of context from his (KCR’s) press conference.”
