Congress Leader Hanumantha Rao Caught On Cam Abusing Police Official 

Hyderabad: Senior Congress leader V. Hanumantha Rao landed in a soup after a video of him shouting at a police officer at the Telangana assembly has gone viral.

The confrontation happened on Thursday after the police official Palaparthy Sudhakar denied the leader an entry to the assembly media point. The leader used filthy language against the police official.

"Who are you to stop me? Go and inform your chief minister. I will come and sit in front of his house. Maybe he doesn't know about me. Yesterday they closed down Dharna Chowk at Indira Park, and now they are not letting me talk to the media here. I will show him (KCR)," Hanumantha Rao was heard saying the video. Meanwhile, the leader defended his action saying, "It's my duty to raise issues concerning the public in Assembly and I was there to do that."

Sudhakar vented out his feelings in a Facebook post saying that he wanted to quit his job after being insulted. "I saluted the senior leader and told him that I was under instructions not to allow former elected representatives to the media point and the lobbies. He became angry and used indecent language. He asked me 'who the silly fellow instructed to stop him'," he posted.

A senior police official said, "We are verifying the CCTV footage. We will act based on the evidence available there. But, Sudhakar has been advised against taking emotional decision."