Archive · 8 Sep 2026
BRS MLCs Arrested Over Remarks Against Telangana Speaker
Police arrested two BRS lawmakers in Hyderabad.
They are accused of making insulting remarks about Telangana Assembly Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar.
Some Congress leaders said the remarks included references to the Speaker’s caste.
The case was filed after a complaint by an official working with the Speaker.
The arrests followed a protest by BRS lawmakers outside the Assembly.
BRS leader KT Rama Rao called the case politically motivated and said the arrests were illegal.
Congress workers and Dalit activists marched to demand an apology.
A court had earlier said police should not stop BRS lawmakers from entering the Assembly.
The dispute has increased tensions between the Congress government and the BRS during the Assembly session.
Police in Hyderabad arrested BRS MLCs Tata Madhusudan and Naveen Kumar Reddy over alleged derogatory remarks against Telangana Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar.
The case followed a complaint by the Speaker’s OSD and invoked the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
Congress leaders alleged the remarks, including caste-related references, were made during a BRS protest outside the Assembly.
BRS leaders called the arrests illegal and politically motivated, while Congress workers and Dalit activists demanded an apology.
The arrests followed a Telangana High Court direction that police should not block BRS legislators from entering the Assembly.
- Who
- BRS MLCs Tata Madhusudan, also known as Tata Madhu, and Naveen Kumar Reddy, also referred to as Naveen Reddy, were arrested; the complaint concerned Telangana Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar.
- What
- The two MLCs were arrested and booked over alleged derogatory and abusive remarks against the Speaker.
- When
- The arrests took place on Tuesday, after the alleged remarks and Assembly protest on Monday.
- Where
- The case was registered at Saifabad Police Station in Hyderabad, following events outside the Telangana Assembly.
- Why
- Police acted on complaints alleging objectionable remarks, including caste-related references, against the Speaker.
BRS Position
Congress Position
Legality and motive of arrests
BRS Position
BRS leaders, including KT Rama Rao, called the arrests illegal, politically motivated and based on allegedly fake cases.
Congress Position
Police registered the case after a complaint alleging objectionable remarks against the Speaker and arrested the two MLCs under cited criminal and anti-atrocity laws.
Remarks against the Speaker
BRS Position
BRS has disputed the arrests and linked them to the wider confrontation over police allegedly stopping its legislators from entering the Assembly.
Congress Position
Congress Dalit MLAs and MLCs alleged that Tata Madhusudan used abusive and derogatory language against Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar, including caste-related references.
Assembly access and protests
BRS Position
BRS said its legislators were stopped from entering the Assembly and welcomed the High Court’s direction that police should not prevent their entry.
Congress Position
Congress workers and Dalit activists marched toward K Chandrasekhar Rao’s farmhouse demanding an apology over the alleged remarks.
- Arrested
- Tata Madhusudan and Naveen Kumar Reddy
- Political party
- Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS)
- Accused person targeted by remarks
- Telangana Assembly Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar
- Police station
- Saifabad Police Station
- Laws cited
- Sections 352 read with 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and provisions of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act
- Protest location
- Outside the Telangana Assembly
- Court development
- The Telangana High Court directed police not to prevent BRS legislators from entering the Assembly
