HYDERABAD: Neredmet police booked a criminal case against Malkajgiri TRS MLA Mynampally Hanumantha Rao, his son Rohit and their associates for abusing BJP workers in front of the Neredmet police station.
The BJP workers were taken into preventive custody on Monday following the bandh call given by them against the attack on Malkajgiri corporator Vurapalli Sravan Kumar. On Independence Day, Sravan Kumar, 44, was allegedly stabbed by TRS members reportedly after an argument over flag hoisting snowballed into an attack Sunday morning.
Based on a complaint from Gunnala Sunitha Yadav, the Moula Ali corporator, the Neredmet police booked a case.
Around 12 noon on Monday, when BJP workers were protesting at Vinayak crossroads against Hanmantha Rao, Neredmet police took them into preventive custody and shifted them to the police station.
Speaking to Deccan Chronicle, Sunitha Yadav said, "With an intention to assault us, the MLA went past the police station with around 50 cars and his henchmen. We were clueless about their arrival. All of a sudden they stopped their convoy and some TRS members tried to assault us. However, police personnel intervened in the nick of time. In the melee some police personnel were injured. The MLA’s supporters also damaged our vehicles which were parked in the neighbourhood.”
"Hanmantha Rao, Rohit and their associates Prabhakar Goud, N. Jagadish Goud, Prem Kumar and others started pelting stones on our workers and assaulted them," said Yadav in the complaint.
"The police were like spectators. It was at our continuous insistence that they booked a case." Neredmet police booked a case under Sections 324, 427, 504, 506, 148 and 149 IPC.
BJP spokesperson A. Rakesh Reddy slammed TRS MLA Mynampalli Hanumantha Rao for allegedly using filthy language against BJP state unit president Bandi Sanjay. Hanumantha Rao was acting like thise as he had not been given a berth in the Chandrashekaar Rao Cabinet, the BJP leader said.
Speaking to the media on Monday, he demanded that the TRS state its stand on Hanumantha Rao’s remarks. He warned the MLA to apologise “otherwise the BJP cadre will show their power.”
Rakesh Reddy said that if the MLA “would not be able to cross Bowenpally” if he did not apologise to Sanjay.
Elsewhere, at Abids, BJP state OBC Morcha organised a protest against Hanumantha Rao at Abids. Actists led by OBC Morcha state president Ale Bhaskar held a dharna and burnt Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s effigy.
Bhaskar too demanded that Hanumantha Rao offer an unconditional apology to Sanjay, and said the MLA must be arrested.
