Hyderabad, August 16: Several Bharatiya Janata Party workers sustained serious injuries when Telangana Rashtra Samithi activists pelted stones at the Azadi Ka Amrut Mahotsav program organized by the party at Devaruppula village of Jangaon district on Monday. While two BJP workers had serious head injuries, several others received injuries on their bodies due to a sudden attack by the TRS workers with stones and sticks right in front of the police, The police, who turned a blind eye to the TRS activists’ attacks on the BJP meeting, resorted to lathicharge on the BJP workers who tried to repulse the TRS attack.
Though there were intelligence reports about the possible attack by the TRS goondas, they did not take any precautionary measures, a party statement here said. Expressing anger at Jangaon commissioner of police, Telangana BJP president Bandi Sanjay Kumar accused him of behaving like a TRS activist rather than being a police official.
“If you can’t control the law and order, better the police commissioner sits at home,” Sanjay said. He spoke to Director General of Police M Mahender Reddy and lodged a complaint with him over the incident. He wondered what the police were doing when the TRS goondas were causing head injuries to the BJP workers.“Are the police getting their monthly salaries from the pockets of chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao? He will be in power only for six months. The DGP should ensure that the padayatra continues peacefully.
If such attacks are repeated, the police would be held responsible for any repercussions,” Sanjay warned. He said the DGP should respond immediately and take action against the police officials responsible for the lathicharge. “Otherwise, we shall bring the injured BJP workers and stage a dharna at the BJP office,” he said. Sanjay alleged that KCR was behaving like a dictator who was not tolerating anybody who questioned his autocratic rule. “When farmers protested against the government, they were handcuffed and jailed.
Even the unemployed youth were being booked in criminal cases and the TRS leaders are not hesitating even to kill those who questioned their atrocities,” he alleged. The BJP president said there was no need for him to take up padayatra braving heat and rain, had the chief minister and his cabinet colleagues resolved the people’s issue. “Let KCR take up padayatra and reach out to the people.
