Bharatiya Janata Party president JP Nadda on Monday issued a strong statement against the arrest of the party’s Telangana president Sanjay Kumar Bandi by the KCR-led Telangana Rashtra Samithi government, and denounced the arrest as “unconstitutional” and “inhuman”, and called it “murder of democracy”.
“It is yet another glaring example of the murder of democracy and constitutional rights by the Telangana government. The Bharatiya Janata Party vehemently criticizes and denounces this attack on the BJP leaders and karyakartas,” read the statement.
Nadda said that the KCR-led TRS government was frustrated by the BJP’s good show in the recently-concluded bypoll. The TRS is part of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance, but trouble has been brewing between the parties lately with the BJP’s increasing footprint.
Bandi was approached by teachers of the state to protest against Order No 317, a directive that introduces a zonal system in appointments of teachers at his Karimnagar office and he started a night-long vigil as a mark of protest, Nadda said.
“But the KCR government in Telangana was so scared of this peaceful protest by the BJP State president, party workers and aggrieved teachers and employees that it ordered the state police to launch an attack on the peaceful protest,” Nadda wrote in his statement.
Nadda said that the political anarchy in the state was a result of vendetta against BJP’s rising popularity in the state.
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Published 03 January 2022, 10:23 IST