Opposition parties in Telangana stage protest against KCR's plans for new Assembly

Opposition parties in Telangana on Thursday staged a protest in Hyderabad, against Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao's decision to construct a new Secretariat and Legsilature, spending several crore from the public exchequer.
The Telugu Desam party (TDP), Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), Congress and the Telangana Jana Samithi (TJS) participated in the protest at Dharna Chowk. The police took several people into preventive custody as the crowd began maching towards the Secretariat, including TJS President M Kodandaram and Telangana TDP chief L Ramana.
"All of us are opposing the misuse of public money which should be spent on fulfilling basic needs… Today’s protest is not only against demolition of secretariat buildings but against the undemocratic attitude of the government,” Kodandaram told reporters.

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