Hyderabad: Following the clash between two groups over a land in Amberpet, the BJP yesterday demanded action against AIMIM MLA Ahmed Pasha Quadri and his party workers for indulging in orchestrating a communal problem.
The BJP also accused the police of adopting a discriminatory attitude against it’s party leaders.
The row was over setting up of a shed on a land where a place of worship had been demolished by the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation for widening the road, following which argument and stone hurling took place between the two communal groups.
Several groups and members of various political parties demanded that a place be built in that spot They also staged dharnas and protests at the site. Two police officials sustained minor injuries.
According to media reports, city police commissioner Anjani Kumar and other senior officials visited the spot and brought the situation under control. The police also took several people into preventive custody, including BJP MLA Raja Singh Lodh.
The party members also sought an apology from police commissioner for his alleged rude behaviour towards the MLA. BJP submitted a memorandum submitted to Telangana Home Minister Mohd Mahmood Ali.
“We also request you to initiate appropriate action against the police officials for their high-handedness on the local people of Amberpet and on Raja Singh (BJP MLA),” it said. Police on 5 May behaved as though their primary and ultimate duty was to protect AIMIM people, it alleged.
BJPs demands include registering a case against MLA Pasha Quadri and other AIMIM leaders. The Commissioner of Police needs to apologise for his rude and unruly behavior towards Raja Singh, they said in the memorandum.