The group, numbering about 10, ransacked the office after BRS district president Kancharla Ramakrishna Reddy and former MLA P Sekhar Reddy reportedly made derogatory comments against the chief minister.
Published Jan 12, 2025 | 1:25 AM ⚊ Updated Jan 12, 2025 | 1:25 AM
The vandalised the BRS office at Bhuvanagiri in Yadadri- Bhuvanagiri district. (Screengrab)
Incensed over the derogatory comments made against Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, a group of Youth Congress and NSUI workers vandalised the BRS office at Bhuvanagiri in Yadadri- Bhuvanagiri district on Saturday, 11 January.
The group, numbering about 10, ransacked the office after BRS district president Kancharla Ramakrishna Reddy and former MLA P Sekhar Reddy reportedly made derogatory comments against the chief minister for not implementing the six guarantees ahead of the 2023 Assembly elections.
The pro-Congress workers damaged the furniture and set fire to a picture of party working president KT Rama Rao. They also broke the windowpanes and raised anti-BRS slogans. It was alleged that attempts were also made to attack BRS activists, who tried to prevent them.
Later, the NSUI, Youth Congress workers staged a protest in front of the office.
Police rounded up the activists and took them away. Later, BRS leaders held up traffic on the Warangal-Hyderabad Highway in protest against the attack. The police took away some of them.
While being whisked away, an NSUI activist, identified as Chandu, in police presence warned BRS leaders that such incidents would repeat if they did not mend their ways. He demanded Kancharla Ramakrishna Reddy withdraw the comments and apologise to the chief minister.
Rama Rao said his party activists would teach a fitting lesson to the Congress if its activists begin attacking the BRS offices or try to attack the party workers. He demanded the arrest of all those who ransacked the office and the district leaders behind them.
He described as detestable the attack on the party office by the Congress whose leaders were at their wit’s end in replying to the BRS searching questions on why the Congress was not able to keep the promises.
KTR regretted that Telangana, where peace prevailed for 10 years, has now turned into a state with law and order problems. He alleged that the Congress, which promised Indiramma Rajyam, was now using strong-arm tactics.
Party senior leader T Harish Rao wondered what would have happened to Congress workers if the BRS had done the way the Congress workers were acting now when it was in power.
He said the Congress should realise that in a democracy, healthy criticism should be allowed to play its part. But the Congress after it came to power was using muscle power against its political adversaries.
If Revanth Reddy is using abusive words against the BRS, the Congress workers were resorting to physical attacks, he said.
(Edited by Majnu Babu).
