Hyderabad, July 2 -- Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leaders, including former Minister T Harish Rao, were taken into preventive custody by police from Telangana Bhavan on Thursday while they were on their way to Gun Park for a proposed debate with Telangana ministers.

Police shifted Harish Rao and other BRS leaders in a DCM vehicle to a police station. According to the BRS, the leaders were not informed about the police station they were being taken to.

Earlier in the day, Telangana ministers Mohammed Azharuddin, Ponnam Prabhakar, Adluri Laxman Kumar, Rajya Sabha MP Anil Kumar Yadav and MLA Danam Nagender reached Gun Park over allegations of corruption in Gurukul educational institutions.

On Wednesday, BRS Working President KT Rama Rao (...