BJP on Sunday staged protests in Hyderabad and elsewhere in Telangana against the passage of a bill by the state legislature increasing reservations for backward sections of Muslim community. All five BJP MLAs -- G Kishan Reddy, K Laxman, NVSS Prabhakar, Ch Ramachandra Reddy and T Raja Singh -- were suspended from the Assembly during the special session on Sunday. Read | Telangana passes bill increasing quota for Muslims to 12%; state’s total quota goes above SC limit of 50%BJP had opposed the bill, calling it anti-Constitutional as it sought to increase a religion-based quota. After their suspension from the House, the BJP MLAs tried to stage a protest at the Gandhi statue on the Assembly premises, but police removed them from there, said BJP spokesperson Prakash Reddy. BJP workers who had planned to march to the Assembly were detained in various parts of the city, he claimed.

Source: Hindustan Times April 16, 2017 15:00 UTC