{"id":314977,"date":"2019-09-11T05:43:46","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T05:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=314977"},"modified":"2019-09-11T05:43:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T05:43:46","slug":"chandrababu-naidu-son-under-house-arrest-amid-protests-against-jagan-reddy-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/chandrababu-naidu-son-under-house-arrest-amid-protests-against-jagan-reddy-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Chandrababu Naidu, son under house arrest amid protests against Jagan Reddy government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-314978 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/TDP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"762\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/TDP.jpg 762w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/TDP-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/TDP-696x458.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/TDP-741x486.jpg 741w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/TDP-639x420.jpg 639w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 762px) 100vw, 762px\" \/>Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief and former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu and his son Nara Lokesh have been put under house arrest ahead of the party\u2019s call for a massive protest against the Jagan Reddy government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Besides Naidu and his son, several TDP leaders have been taken into preventive detention.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Naidu-led TDP had planned a protest against the ruling YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) and said that they will launch &#8216;Chalo Atmakur&#8217;\u00a0on September 11\u00a0for &#8216;saving democracy&#8217;\u00a0in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Naidu accused YSR Congress Party that completed 100 days in power last week over increasing attacks on TDP workers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">With the TDP cadre not being allowed to protest, Naidu has called for a 12-hour hunger strike which began at around 8 am and will continue till 8 pm.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Section 144 was imposed in Narasaraopeta, Sattenapalle, Palnadu and Gurajala regions of the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Tension prevails around Chandrababu Naidu&#8217;s house as party leaders coming to meet him were being prevented from entering the house.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Chandrababu Naidu&#8217;s son Nara Lokesh shared some pictures on his Twitter account from the TDP&#8217;s protest and interaction with the police.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Reddy and\u00a0Naidu have been at the loggerheads ever since the\u00a0YSRCP came to power in the state in the recently held Assembly elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief and former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu and his son Nara Lokesh have been put under house arrest ahead of the party\u2019s call for a massive protest against the Jagan Reddy government. Besides Naidu and his son, several TDP leaders have been taken into preventive detention. Naidu-led TDP had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":314978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2920,1801,2072,2014],"tags":[1886,11792,854,7762],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314979,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314977\/revisions\/314979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/314978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}