Hyderabad, April 19 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party's Telangana unit's chief, N Ramchander Rao, was on Saturday placed under house arrest to prevent him from joining a protest march till chief minister A Revanth Reddy's official Jubilee Hills residence to stage a protest against the defeat of the 131st constitutional amendment bill in Parliament on Friday, people aware of the matter said.

Scores of BJP workers from the party's women's wing and other right-wing activists who attempted to go ahead with the march were also detained and released later in the afternoon, they added.

Speaking to reporters at his residence, which witnessed heavy deployment of police early in the day, Rao alleged that the Congress was an "anti-women" party and tra...