HYDERABAD

The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has condemned the ‘attack’ on former Chief Minister and Leader of the Opposition K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s camp office at Gajwel after the Congress workers hung a picture of Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy there claiming that the MLA’s camp office belongs to the government.

The BRS termed the attack as undemocratic and demanded the immediate arrest of those involved. The party sought to know where the protection would be for commoners if the former Chief Minister’s camp office itself was attacked by the ‘anti-social elements’ of the ruling party.

Deputy Floor Leader of BRS in the Assembly T. Harish Rao alleged that it was an attack carried out at the behest of the Chief Minister. The daylight attack was out of the ruling party’s arrogance stemming from power. It was unfortunate that the ruling Congress party was resorting to attacks on the elected representatives of the Opposition parties, and that people’s organisations and the media had become routine.

The attack clearly indicates the deterioration of the law and order situation in the State, and the police, who were required to maintain law and order, had merely become the “private army of the ruling party”.

He sought to know whether the Congress party was implementing “goonda rajyam” in the name of “Indiramma Rajyam” and the recently introduced Bill on Hate Speech would be one more effort of the ruling party to silence the people and Opposition voices. He sought to know whether the Chief Minister had given orders to the party to carry out attacks, as in Gajwel, when he was away in Kerala election campaign.