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Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy clarified that successful the POCSO lawsuit against Bandi Bageerath, the police themselves had arrested him arsenic per process and helium has not surrendered as is being claimed.
If Union Minister Bandi Sanjay Kumar had voluntarily handed implicit his lad to the police, authorities could person completed the process astatine his residence itself. Police arrested Bageerath portion searching for him, said the Chief Minister — who is besides Home Minister.
Addressing a property league astatine the State Secretariat successful Hyderabad connected Thursday (May 21, 2026), the Chief Minister said notices were issued to applicable persons and an enquiry was being conducted successful the lawsuit involving Bageerath.
Mr. Reddy accused Opposition parties, peculiarly the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), of indulging successful “debased politics” implicit delicate issues, including the POCSO lawsuit and farmers’ concerns, portion asserting that the constabulary were strictly pursuing ineligible procedures successful each investigations.
He alleged that BRS leaders were behaving “like sadists” arsenic though they had achieved thing important successful the POCSO case. “If they privation to bash politics, they should decision america successful elections, but should not stoop to specified levels,” helium said.
Referring to different controversy, Mr. Reddy said notices were besides served and inquiries conducted aft drugs were allegedly recovered astatine a farmhouse linked to the brother-in-law of BRS moving president K. T. Rama Rao.
“Why is KTR soundless connected this? Why is helium not taking immoderate enactment against the erstwhile BRS MLA caught successful the cause lawsuit successful the farmhouse?” helium asked.
He accused BRS leaders of having mislaid their consciousness of humanity and attempting to exploit each contented politically. The Chief Minister further alleged that the BRS was trying to play “corpse politics” implicit issues concerning farmers.
“If the absorption is genuinely acrophobic astir farmers, they should connection constructive suggestions and proposal to the authorities alternatively of politicising tragedies,” helium remarked.
Targeting the BRS leadership, Mr. Reddy said Mr. Rama Rao inactive appeared to judge helium was surviving nether the “Kalvakuntla Constitution,” contempt erstwhile Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao stepping down agelong ago.
Caste census is our success
On the contented of caste census, the Chief Minister welcomed the Supreme Court’s observations and said the Telangana authorities considered it an honour that the Supreme Court had supported the State’s decision.
He stated that Telangana had emerged arsenic a exemplary for the state by conducting caste census on with the wide census and placing each details earlier the public.
Mr. Reddy urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Union authorities to instantly see caste enumeration successful the nationalist census to guarantee due practice for weaker sections successful each sectors.
He accused Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Centre of viewing nationalist issues and adjacent planetary conflicts done a governmental lens.
The Chief Minister besides criticised the Centre implicit the summation successful substance prices, alleging that petrol and diesel prices were being raised repeatedly aft elections. In contrast, helium said, the Telangana authorities was taking decisions with a semipermanent vision, citing the caller hike successful minimum wages for workers arsenic an example.
