Hyderabad, Sept. 21 -- Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president KT Rama Rao (KTR) has condemned the alleged arrests and house detentions of BRS leaders in the erstwhile Palamuru district, who, according to him, were seeking the release of irrigation water from the Jurala project to protect standing crops.

In a statement given on Sunday, KTR alleged that former ministers Singireddy Niranjan Reddy, C Lakshma Reddy and Srinivas Goud, former MLAs and other BRS leaders had been illegally detained by the state government. He accused the Revanth Reddy government of attempting to suppress the party's proposed protest over the farmers' demand.

KTR alleged that crops in several areas were drying up while the government was failing to addres...