BJP condemns and denies role in ‘attack’ on Karachi Bakery outlet

A view of Karachi Bakery in Hyderabad.
| Photo Credit: GIRI KVS

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has condemned and distanced itself from the ‘attack’ on a Karachi Bakery outlet in Shamshabad on the weekend. “None of our party cadres were involved in the attack. Minister Seethakka should have verified facts before making allegations against our party. We don’t indulge in such activities,” asserted former MLC N. Ramchander Rao on Monday.

Addressing a press conference at the State office, the BJP leader said that at a time when party cadres have been participating in activities like holding prayers in the temples and supporting the armed forces for ‘Operation Sindoor’, it is not right to make baseless allegations without proper verification.

“Ransacking shops or attacking houses of political opponents is not part of our culture. It is the Congress and its leaders who have been threatening to lay siege to our party leaders and attack them,” he charged. Mr. Rao advised the ruling party activists not to provoke a confrontation with his partymen by resorting to such acts and warned them of consequences if they did so.

Not fair, HYDRAA

In a separate press conference, former vice president S. Malla Reddy and other leaders of Medchal-Malkajgiri, Rangareddy and Secunderabad Cantonment — B Srinivas, V. Srinivas Reddy, G. Bharat Goud and so on, objected to notices issued to two apartment complexes and a community hall built under the full tank level of Medigunta lake in Bachupally by the local MRO.

“While it is true these buildings have come up under FTL, people have been staying here for the last six years and are being told to vacate immediately. The flats were purchased only after civic infrastructure was provided, including internal roads, sewage, power and drinking water by the local municipal authority. Did HYDRAA — Hyderabad Disaster Response and Asset Protection Agency, not state that ‘old’ structures will not be touched,” questioned Mr. Reddy.

The party has always been fighting for the preservation of water bodies and protection of government lands but the interests of the common people should also be considered whenever drastic action like demolitions are taken up, he maintained.

The BJP leaders also objected to the Congress leaders’ criticism of Malkajgiri MP Eatala Rajender and making a vain bid to accost him at this house. The ruling party leaders were advised to focus on policies and issues desisting from using unparliamentary language against fellow politicians.