BJP alleges smear campaign by BRS amid women’s safety row

Telangana BJP president N. Ramchander Rao connected Monday alleged that respective leaders of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) faced superior accusations, including rape, harassment and assaults connected minors, during the party’s tenure successful government. He besides claimed that immoderate names had surfaced successful cases involving the drugging and kidnapping of young women.

Questioning the BRS’s existent stance, Mr. Rao asked, “What motivation close does the BRS person to talk astir women’s rights and the information of minors today? Did erstwhile Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao resign erstwhile those incidents occurred? Did moving president K.T. Rama Rao instrumentality responsibility?”

Addressing enactment leaders astatine the BJP authorities office, helium said it was ‘absurd’ for BRS leaders to lecture others connected morality erstwhile crimes against women had risen sharply nether their regime. Citing National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data, Mr. Rao, a elder advocate, said the fig of crimes registered against women successful Telangana accrued from 14,147 successful 2014 to 23,679 successful 2023 — an summation of astir 67%. “The BRS enactment indispensable reply for this,” helium said.

The BJP person further alleged that BRS moving president K.T. Rama Rao had been spearheading a ‘coordinated and malicious campaign’ against the BJP. Crores of rupees were being spent connected posters, societal media outreach and ‘favourable media coverage’ to defame the party, peculiarly successful transportation with the POCSO lawsuit involving Bandi Sai Bageerath, lad of Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Bandi Sanjay Kumar.

“If anyone commits a mistake, enactment nether the instrumentality is inevitable. If Mr. Sanjay Kumar has done thing wrong, the enactment volition act. If immoderate of his household members are progressive successful wrongdoing, the instrumentality volition instrumentality its people and the courts volition decide,” Mr. Rao said.

Seeking anticipatory bail is simply a ineligible close disposable to immoderate citizen, helium said and pointed retired that BRS leaders themselves approached courts erstwhile investigations into alleged irregularities successful the Kaleshwaram irrigation task began. Mr. Rao accused BRS leaders of resorting to idiosyncratic attacks retired of ‘sheer panic’, alleging that they fearfulness being implicated successful ongoing probes into alleged scams, including the Formula-E contention case.

Earlier, the enactment main powerfully ‘condemned’ the ‘harassment’ of ‘Gau Rakshaks’ and voluntary ‘Gau Sevaks’ by the constabulary successful presumption of Bakrid. Following the Attapur incident, the police, acting nether unit from the Majlis Party, are filing mendacious cases. Instead of maintaining instrumentality and bid successful a just and balanced manner, the constabulary look to beryllium targeting those moving to support cattle sentiments. The authorities and constabulary indispensable guarantee that nary amerciable activities instrumentality spot and that the sentiments of Hindus are not hurt, helium added.