For the last one day, social media had been agog with rumours that firebrand YSR Congress party legislator from Nagari R K Roja had been taken into custody by the police in Kuwait city in the Gulf.
There was no clarity as to what exactly had happened to Roja in Kuwait. All that people know was that she had been to Dubai and Kuwait on a holiday along with her family, apparently to get out of the tense political atmosphere in the state.
Following the rumours in the social media that Roja had been arrested, she had to respond and give a clarification in the same social media.
According to her, Roja attended a meeting convened by YSR Congress party NRI cell in Kuwait and she was invited to speak at the meeting.
As she reached there, more than 2,000 YSRC activists who gathered at the meeting jostled to see her.
The commotion led to the police entering the scene and questioning the organisers. They raised objection to the assembling of so many people. However, they left the venue after the organisers convinced them.
“It was an issue between the organisers and the police. I was no way involved and the reports that I was arrested were baseless and false,” she said.
However, reports said the meeting had no permission from the police, yet the organisers mobilised huge crowds.
When Roja started attacking the Chandrababu Naidu government and calling upon the people to declare a war against Naidu, there were cheers and slogans from the crowds.
The police who gathered there objected to this commotion and this led to argument between the police and the YSRC workers.
The police took some people into custody and released them later. This led to the rumour that Roja was among the arrested.
