Bandi Sanjay Decries House Arrest Of BJP Leaders

Telangana BJP president and Karimnagar MP Bandi Sanjay Kumar today condemned the house arrests of several BJP leaders and attacks on the party's activists in the state.

Kumar questioned the legality of keeping the BJP leaders under house arrest when they were merely going to Jangaon to call on the party's workers who he claimed were injured in an assault by the TRS "goons" on Wednesday.

"The injured BJP workers are battling for their lives in the hospitals, but the police lacked the basic humanity to allow the party leaders to call on them. It is unfortunate that for the police Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao's meeting at Warangal is more important than the people's lives," he said.

Stating that the democracy had gone to the winds in the KCR regime, Kumar said that it was shameful on the part of the police to give permissions for the protest rallies by the ruling party workers while denying the same to the teachers who were trying to take up protests in a democratic manner against GO 317.

"This is a classic example of how only the Kalvakuntla Constitution, and not the Indian constitution drafted by B R Ambedkar, has been in force in Telangana State," he said.

The Karimnagar MP asked the people to decide whether they wanted democracy envisaged by the Constitution drafted by Ambedkar, or the "Kalvakuntla Constitution" which curtailed the democratic rights of the people and put them under house arrest if they protested.

He also vowed that under no circumstances would the BJP allow the enforcement of the "Kalvakuntla Constitution", and that it would continue to fight to whatever extent needed.

"The BJP will not be cowed down by the arrests by the police and assaults by the TRS goondas. We shall step up our struggles till we bury the KCR regime," he said.

Kumar also said that the days were not far off when the people would restrict KCR to his farmhouse permanently.