Telangana BJP chief Bandi Sanjay Kumar — who was arrested amid midnight drama on Wednesday — has been granted bail. On Wednesday, he was despatched to jail for 2 weeks.
Taken into police custody on Tuesday night time, the MP from Karimnagar was later arrested over the leak of secondary faculty examination papers — a cost that his social gathering has dismissed as politically motivated.
His arrest has set off an enormous political row and drew criticism from the social gathering’s Central management in New Delhi.
Mr Kumar, the state BJP claimed, was taken into custody from his house round 11 pm with none clarification. Thereafter, he was apparently moved to varied police stations throughout totally different districts, elevating questions on his whereabouts and security.
The BJP welcomed the Warrangal court docket’s bail choice. State BJP spokesperson NV Subhash mentioned, “Finally fact received the political conflict orchestrated by Chief Minister Ok Chandrasekhar Rao”.
“This is a slap on the face of the Chief Minister and his Bharat Raksha Samithi as they wished to maintain Bandi Sanjay contained in the jail and forestall him from taking part within the Prime Minister’s programmes on April 8 by implicating him in a false case,” he mentioned.
In an open letter, Mr Kumar mentioned such conspiracies wouldn’t demoralise the social gathering and the cadre.
“Arresting me and harassing the BJP staff have been like hitting the ball to the bottom. We shall solely bounce again with the identical drive,” he wrote within the letter to the social gathering cadre amid the BJP’s basis day celebrations.
The BJP, which is attempting to carve out a distinct segment within the nation’s youngest state, has accused Chief Minister Ok Chandrasekhar Rao of corruption, nepotism and minority appeasement. Mr Rao’s authorities has been in energy within the state since its creation in 2014.
The BJP, which received 4 parliamentary seats of the state in 2019, is hoping for greater good points within the meeting election due later this yr.
On Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is predicted to go to the state to inaugurate a number of improvement initiatives and deal with a public rally.