Hyderabad, Nov 24, : Hyderabad police filed charges Wednesday against BJP officials for vandalizing the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation’s (GHMC) head offices on Tuesday. According to police, the cases were filed on the complaint of GHMC officials.
Despite the fact that 10 of the corporators were arrested at Saifabad’s police station on Tuesday afternoon, 22 other cases were filed on Wednesday.
Officials from the police said that after reviewing the CCTV footage, action will be taken against BJP workers.
Earlier, Telangana Minister K.T.Rama Rao asked Anjani Kumar, Hyderabad Police Commissioner, to take tough action against BJP’s workers and corporators who vandalized the GHMC office.
“Some thugs & hooligans from BJP in Hyderabad vandalized the GHMC office yesterday.
Rama Rao, who is also the Working President of Telangana Rashtra Samithi(TRS), strongly condemned this atrocious behavior.
He wrote, “Guess it is too much to ask Godse Bhakts to behave in Gandhian fashion.”
He asked the Hyderabad Police Commissioner for stricter action against vandals in accordance with law.
On Tuesday, BJP activists and corporators barged into Mayor Vijaya Lakshmi Gadwal’s chamber at GHMC Head Office and staged a sit in protest demanding a council meeting be held and the release of funds.
They damaged furniture, broke flower pots, and spray-painted signboards.The mayor was not present at her office when the incident occurred.
On Wednesday, the TRS corporators cleaned the GHMC head offices with milk and condemned the vandalism committed by BJP workers and corporators.They sent a memorandum asking the Mayor to disqualify the corrupt officials who damaged public property.
The ruling party leaders claimed that the BJP corporators had tried to tarnish Hyderabad’s image.They claimed that the saffron party’s actions were highly offensive and that the government is committed to Hyderabad becoming a world-class metropolis.
The Mayor slammed Tuesday’s incidents by the BJP.She wondered if BJP leaders were teaching their cadres goondaism.She said that BJP corporators can bring any issues to her attention, but vandalism is not allowed.
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Srinivas Yadav, the state minister, said that he had never seen elected representatives resort to this type of activity in his 30 years of service.
He also criticised the state BJP chief Bandi Sajay Kumar for supporting his party’s actions.
Sanjay stated that the BJP Corporators were justified by concerns that the GHMC Standing Council meeting was not held and that a unilaterally elected council was formed.
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