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A vocal activistic from the Musi Jan Andolan (MJA) has been detained wrong his location astatine Chaderghat, Hyderabad, connected Friday (March 13, 2026), hours up of the Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy’s scheduled unveiling of projected plans for the Musi Riverfront Development project.
The activist, Syed Bilal, from the slum Shankarnagar connected the Musi stream bank, was portion of the 12 subordinate delegation from the MJA which met the Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka and his furniture colleagues astatine his residence connected Thursday.
“I was precise vocal and cornered the Ministers with my uncomfortable questions astir the mode they demolished the homes astatine Chaderghat slums aft our past gathering with them, and however they are going against Mahatma Gandhi’s ethos and [Congress leader] Rahul Gandhi’s assurances by forcing this task connected us. They felt threatened, and sent the constabulary to my location today,” Mr. Bilal shared connected phone.
He said the constabulary conveyed their volition to detain him successful the constabulary station, but erstwhile helium expressed his inability to travel owing to ‘Roza’, they relented and detained him astatine home.
“A immense posse of policemen is lasting defender extracurricular my home, adjacent arsenic I americium speaking to you. Irony is that we were invited to instrumentality portion successful the gathering with the Chief Minister today,” Mr. Bilal said.
MJA, done a statement, condemned Mr. Bilal’s ‘arbitrary location arrest’, and termed it arsenic ‘undemocratic’, particularly aft the ‘dialogue’ connected Thursday. It further informed that though it had been extended a past infinitesimal oral invitation by Mr. Bhatti Vikramarka for the lawsuit connected Friday, it was taking a principled basal not to enactment owing to what it termed ‘severe antiauthoritarian deficit’.
The delegation, during the meeting, aired their concerns astir displacement, exemption for the task from societal interaction assessment, and the contamination of the stream by concern effluents.
It demanded the nationalist merchandise of the Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the full task successful English, Telugu, and Urdu, on with the marked stream bound and buffer portion maps, with a minimum play of sixty days for each stakeholders to taxable their suggestions and objections.
Mr. Vikramarka unneurotic with IT and Industries Minister Sridhar Babu and others, heard each the concerns expressed and indicated that the superior nonsubjective of this Project is lone ‘river rejuvenation’. They assured the delegation that the Government is ‘fully committed’ to antiauthoritarian process and people’s well-being and volition not undertake immoderate forcible and non-consensual eviction oregon displacement, arsenic per the connection from MJA.
Mr.Vikramarka clarified that the expansive lawsuit connected Friday did not represent the merchandise of the Detailed Project Report, but is simply a ‘Powerpoint presentation’ by the Chief Minister, outlining the objectives and scope of the project. He further stated that the presumption to beryllium delivered by the Chief Minister volition beryllium made publically disposable done a website for suggestions and objections, the connection from MJA said.
