India, March 31 -- Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president KT Rama Rao has hit out at the Congress-led state government in Telangana for its alleged role in detaining a journalist covering student protests at the University of Hyderabad. The protests were sparked by the controversial felling of forest land on the university campus and the auction of a 400-acre land parcel near the university.

KTR condemned the actions of the police and accused the state government of suppressing free speech.

"The draconian police overreach in Telangana is alarming. Journalists are being detained, and dissenting voices arrested. This blatant suppression of free speech and expression is unacceptable," KTR said in a post on X (formerly Twitter).

He...