BJP charges police of helping BRS, complains to EC
1 year, 1 month ago

BJP charges police of helping BRS, complains to EC

The Hindu  

Telangana BJP has appealed to the Election Commission of India complaining about the state police being a ‘mute spectator’ to the various ‘electoral malpractices’ by the ruling BRS representatives during polling in various districts across the state on Thursday. State president and Union Minister for Tourism, Culture and Development of Northeast Region, G. Kishan Reddy, in his complaint, charged that the police was allowing the BRS leaders to move in groups of 100-200 people around the polling areas and when the BJP was objecting to the same, the party cadre was being ‘attacked’. Probe demanded In a second complaint to the EC, the party demanded conduct of an immediate enquiry into the ‘provocative’ act of the Andhra Pradesh Government in sending its police teams to forcibly open the gates of the Nagarjunasagar Dam in the early hours of Thursday. In a communication to the EC, general secretary K. Venkateshwarlu accused that the AP police teams were sent to the dam site to create ‘trouble’ in the water sharing aspect and rake up the ‘Telangana sentiment’ to benefit the ruling BRS Party.

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