Promised Bulldozer Raj In Telangana If Voted To Power: Bandi

Hyderabad, Mar 12 (Maxim News): With Assembly elections in Telangana only a few months away, BJP leaders are increasingly using the word bulldozer and promising to emulate the Uttar Pradesh model of voter power in the state.

Last year, it started with MLA Raja Singh, a controversial figure who has been booked on many occasions for hate speech. Now BJP State President and MP Bandi Sanjay himself is promising bulldozer rule. He proudly speaks about the use of bulldozers by the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh. At public meetings, he promises that if voted to power in Telangana, the BJP will follow the UP model.

Last week, he promised that if voted to power, the BJP would bulldoze the houses of those indulging in crimes against women. Exuding confidence that the BJP will come to power in Telangana, he said it would follow the model of Uttar Pradesh which uses bulldozers to demolish the houses of offenders. He was speaking at a day-long protest at the party office in Hyderabad against the increasing atrocities on women in the state. Sanjay made the remark while referring to the death of Preethi, an MD student of kakatiya Medical College who committed suicide recently due to alleged harassment by her senior.

Political observers say the BJP is looking for sensitive issues to polarise the voters on communal lines and it found one such issue in Preethi’s suicide. By raking up such issues and speaking of bulldozers, the BJP appears to be building a narrative for the polls.

Last month, Bandi Sanjay threatened to demolish the domes of the new Secretariat building if his party was voted to power in the next elections. He says the domes reflect the culture of the Nizams and hence they will be demolished if the BJP comes to power. BJP leaders have been targeting the BRs over its alleged policy of minority appeasement and its friendly ties with the AIMIM. It is in this context that Bandi Sanjay faulted the design of the new Secretariat building to train his guns on the BRS and Chief Minister K.Chandrasekhar Rao. Bandi Sanjay alleged that KCR has turned the Secretariat into a tomb like the Taj Mahal to please AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi. “If the BJP comes to power, it will destroy the symbols of Nizam’s culture in the state. We will make changes in the state Secretariat so that it reflects the Indian and Telangana culture, he said. The seven-story structure with a built-up area of 7 lakh square feet was constructed at nearly Rs. 650 crores and is ready for inauguration.

Bandi Sanjay even challenged municipal administration and urban development Minister K.Tarak Rama Rao to demolish mosques on the roads in the old city of Hyderabad, considered a stronghold of the AIMIM. Bandi Sanjay has been making provocative statements. Police complaints were filed against him at various police stations in the state for making provocative remarks against mosques and madrasas. Alleging that Muslim rulers in Telangana demolished several temples and built mosques over them, he demanded digging at all the mosques, saying there was a possibility of finding shiva Lingams underneath. The BJP MP also stated that if his party comes to power in Telangana, it will abolish all the madrasas, do away with reservation for Muslims and remove Urdu as the second official language, renaming Hyderabad as Bhagyanagar. The BJP leaders have apparently always tried to look for issues that lead to communal polarisation. The BRS is countering the BJP by calling it a fight between development and destruction. “We are for development while they want demolition and destruction,” said Tarak Rama Rao.

It was Raja Singh who first talked of bulldozers. He sparked a row in February last year with his tweet amidst the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election in February. The firebrand leader had released a video after the second phase of polling in Uttar Pradesh, threatening voters that if they don’t cast their votes for the BJP their houses will be demolished and they will be driven out of the state. After the BJP retained power in Uttar Pradesh, Raja Singh made another controversial statement on the subject, this time targeting the BRS and the AIMIM. (Maxim News)

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