BJP Seeks Union Government Security For Bandi Sanjay

Bharatiya Janata Party State senior leader Gudur Narayana Reddy today appealed to Union Home Minister Amit Shah to provide central government security for BJP State president Bandi Sanjay Kumar.

Reddy said that the party's State unit had lost all confidence in the Telangana police, and that there was a risk to the life of Bandi. The Centre should therefore provide protection with CRPF personnel and a bulletproof car to Bandi, Reddy said.

He said that ever since Sanjay has begun the third round of his Praja Sangrama Yatra, TRS leaders had been creating problems. And TRS leaders and workers had resorted to even attacking Bandi when he entered Jangaon district, he claimed.

The Jangaon district leaders were unable to digest the success of the padayatra and the public meeting of Amit Shah, and so had planned to disturb the padayatra of Bandi, he alleged.

"TRS leaders and workers came in the guise of BJP leaders and attacked Bandi Sanjay recently. The padayatra has been going on peacefully, but the TRS leaders have been trying to provoke the BJP leaders," he said.

"And the Wardhannapet episode is another example of the illegal activities of the police officers of the State. The police have been stooping low to appease their political bosses. The order of the High Court is a slap on the face of the police," Reddy added.

(For the unversed, the Wardhannapet ACP G Ramesh had issued a notice to Bandi to stop the padayatra. Bandi was then arrested and sent to Karimnagar. However, the High Court questioned the notice of the ACP and granted permission to Bandi to continue the padayatra.)

Reddy added that the TRS was stoking the flames of communalism in the State and blaming the BJP for this.

"To divert the attention of the people of the State from the Delhi liquor scam, the TRS intentionally permitted the show of Munawar Faruqui, a washed-up comedian, in Hyderabad. Industries minister K T Rama Rao was behind the permission to the show, which had been opposed by Hindu groups. The police provided unprecedented security to Munawar's show, just to ensure it happened and to provoke the Hindus," he said.

"The show led to a string of adverse incidents, and caused the law and order problem in Hyderabad. Now the government wants to throw the blame for that on the BJP and gain political mileage," he added.

Strongly condemning the statements of Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao that the BJP was fanning the flames of communalism, Reddy asked how, if that was true, there was peace in 19 BJP-ruled sates in the country.

Faulting the CM for the comments that people should choose between pantalu and mantalu (good crops and communal flames), the BJP leader said that the CM was deliberately trying to paint the BJP as a communalist group.

"For the past eight years there were no communal clashes in Hyderabad. With the conspiracies of the TRS and the MIM, the city may witness the communal riots at any time now," he said.

He said that the Chief Minister should be considered as the incarnation of the seventh Nizam of the erstwhile Hyderabad State in how he was deliberately trying to crush the people of the majority community. The people would teach a fitting lesson to KCR, he claimed.