Overview
- Police surrounded Vemula Prashanth Reddy’s home in Velpur and informed him he could not leave, while several BRS activists were detained and moved to police stations to block a planned protest.
- Reddy began a day‑long hunger strike at his residence despite the house arrest and told reporters the fast would continue until the government sets firm completion dates for the works.
- The protest targets a package of constituency projects that BRS lists as a 100‑bed hospital, renovation of the RTC depot, vegetable and non‑vegetable markets and CC roads.
- BRS leaders, including T Harish Rao, accused the state Congress government of suppressing peaceful dissent and condemned the overnight dismantling of the protest camp in Bheemgal.
- The party says the projects were substantially advanced under its tenure but stalled under the current administration, a claim that frames a wider dispute over project delivery and could heighten local political tensions while residents wait for services.