The police today took into preventive custody AAP leader Somnath Bharti and over 30 party workers as they held a protest here demanding the arrest of Telangana BJP MLA Raja Singh over his comment defending the flogging of dalits at Una in Gujarat by cow vigilantes.
Telangana AAP workers led by Bharti held a demonstration near the Hyderabad police commissioner's office here and demanded immediate registration of FIR against Raja Singh and his arrest.
"A group of 37 AAP activists including Bharti were taken into preventive custody...All of them were subsequently released," Narayanguda police station's inspector S Bheem Reddy told PTI.
Raja Singh, who represents Goshamahal constituency here, in a speech uploaded on his Facebook page supported the attacks on dalits in Una by a vigilante group for allegedly killing a cow.
"I support the beating of Dalits whoever slaughter cows to consume its meat...I also support those who taught them a lesson," Singh said in his two-and-half minute video, uploaded on July 30.
