Hyderabad, April 8 -- Telangana police on Tuesday arrested Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) deputy floor leader in the assembly, T Harish Rao, and other senior party leaders while they were en route to Parigi town in Vikarabad district to express solidarity with farmers protesting against land acquisition for a proposed industrial park.

Accompanied by former ministers P Sabitha Indra Reddy and Errabelli Dayakar Rao and several other BRS leaders, Harish Rao was leaving in a convoy of vehicles to Parigi, when they were intercepted at Narsingi and taken into custody.

A tense situation prevailed at Telangana police academy (TGPA) junction, where hundreds of BRS leaders and workers staged a sit-in in protest against the arrest of Harish Rao and ...