Telangana BJP distances itself from POCSO case against Bandi Sanjay’s son, calls it legal issue

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Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Telangana State president   N. Ramchander Rao. File

Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Telangana State president N. Ramchander Rao. File | Photo Credit: SIDDHANT THAKUR

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Telangana portion connected Monday (May 11, 2026) sought to region itself from the POCSO lawsuit registered against Bandi Bhagirath, lad of Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Bandi Sanjay Kumar, asserting that the enactment has nary relation successful the matter.

“Our enactment has nary transportation with the case. It is simply a ineligible issue, and Mr. Sanjay Kumar has thing to bash with it. He is our person and a Union Minister. If immoderate subordinate of his household is involved, it volition beryllium investigated arsenic per law,” said the State BJP president N. Ramchander Rao astatine a property league held connected Monday.

He was responding to a query aft thanking enactment cadre for the occurrence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s nationalist gathering connected Sunday. Mr. Kumar has earlier claimed that it was a conspiracy against him by vested interests.

Earlier, Mr. Rao criticised the Congress government. “Like the erstwhile Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) regime, the Congress authorities has misled radical with fake guarantees. In contrast, Mr. Modi’s warrant focuses connected Telangana’s economical improvement and employment for youth,” helium claimed.

Mr. Rao expressed assurance that the BJP could replicate its electoral successes successful different States. “There were sceptics erstwhile the enactment aimed to travel to powerfulness successful West Bengal and elsewhere, but we emerged victorious. A akin result is imaginable successful Telangana with the hard enactment of our cadre and nationalist support,” helium said.

The BJP president besides dismissed allegations of discrepancies successful the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) conducted during the caller Assembly elections. He maintained that “not a azygous genuine voter” had complained astir being removed from the electoral rolls.

“Only deceased persons, those who person shifted, and fake oregon duplicate entries were removed. The workout was conducted by the Election Commission with the Supreme Court’s approval. The past SIR was undertaken successful 2005, and this clean-up is being carried retired aft astir 2 decades. It is not a BJP programme,” helium said, adding that specified a revision would beryllium conducted successful Telangana arsenic good to destruct ‘bogus’ voters.

Mr. Rao further alleged that caller Assembly predetermination results reflected the mandate of genuine voters. “This is the triumph of existent voters, not bogus oregon amerciable ones. The Congress and Chief Minister Revanth Reddy are rattled by the occurrence of the Prime Minister’s nationalist gathering and are making baseless allegations astir the SIR,” helium said.

Published - May 11, 2026 04:49 p.m. IST

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