YSR Congress party MLA Bhuma Nagireddy was arrested by the Kurnool police on Friday evening for abusing an on-duty police officer.
The YSRCP MLA was taken into custody in the evening for misbehaving with Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Devadanam, who was on election duty.
He entered into an argument with the DSP near the polling booth and even used abusive language against the police officer following which a case was booked and the MLA was later taken into custody.
Kurnool DSP Harinath Reddy said, “Based upon the complaints by respective police officer, Bhuma was arrested. He abused an officer who belongs to backward class.”
However, Akhila Priya, the Allagedda MLA and daughter of Bhuma Nagi Reddy, alleged that the police had used highly objectionable language against her and arrested her father.
"I was sitting in the polling booth waiting for my father but the police asked me to exercise my franchise and leave the place immediately.
Even when I was informing them that I will leave the polling booth in 10 minutes after casting my vote, the SP and the local DSP began using abusive language against me.
At this moment of time my father had come and reacted like a parent. But the police registered a case against him," she said.
Nandyal town was tense for sometime following his arrest and the police tightened security to prevent any untoward incident from taking place.
