Hyderabad, March 31 -- Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president KT Rama Rao slammed the Congress government in Telangana for reportedly detaining a journalist covering student protests at Hyderabad University, saying that the "blatant suppression" of free speech and expression was "unacceptable".

KTR took a dig at the Congress leader and Leader of Opposition (LoP) in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, over the detention of the journalist and said that he goes to "town preaching about democracy and free speech".

The students were protesting against the felling of the forest on the university campus and the auction of 400 acres of land.

"The draconian police overreach in Telangana is alarming. Journalists are being detained & dissenting voic...