Hyderabad, July 23 -- Congress leaders and workers took out a protest march to the Gandhi statue near Fateh Darwaza in the Bahadurpura Assembly constituency here on Thursday, July 23, condemning the alleged police lathi-charge on students protesting at Jantar Mantar in Delhi and the detention of senior Congress leaders.

The march, from Chandulal Baradari to Fateh Darwaza, was led by Pulipati Rajesh Kumar, a Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) Election Commission Coordination Committee member and the party's in-charge for the Bahadurpura constituency. Party workers raised slogans against the central government and Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan during the rally.

As part of the demonstration, the protesters tied black...