Tension at Bandi Sanjay’s Jagarana Deeksha camp

Police take BJP leaders and cadre into preventive custody citing COVID-19 safety norms

Tension prevailed at Telangana State BJP chief and MP Bandi Sanjay Kumar’s camp office here on Sunday night when the police took several BJP leaders and cadre into preventive custody citing the COVID-19 safety norms when the latter gathered at the office to participate in the 10-hour ‘Jagarana Deeksha’.

The deeksha was called by Mr. Sanjay to press for amendments to the “controversial” GO 317 and frame fresh guidelines for transfer of employees and teachers based on nativity in consultation with the unions representing the staff.

Minutes before the scheduled start of the deeksha, a large posse of police arrived at the MP’s camp office and dragged away several BJP cadre, who gathered at the deeksha site. Mr Bandi Sanjay reached the venue riding pillion on a bike amid tense situation and entered his camp office amid loud sloganeering by the cadre against the TRS regime. He, along with a few other senior leaders, reportedly commenced the deeksha inside the office building even as the police shut the main entrance shutter of the meeting hall to prevent the party cadre from going inside.