Urban naxals politicising universities: BJP Chief

Telangana BJP State President N. Ramchander Rao strongly condemned the Youth Congress's semi-nude protest at the AI Summit 2026 in New Delhi, calling it a "shameful act" that damaged India's global image, allegedly orchestrated by Rahul Gandhi. Even INDIA alliance partners opposed it, he noted, demanding an apology. He accused pseudo-secularists, pseudo-intellectuals, and "urban naxals" of inciting students and politicizing universities.

At the BJP state office in Hyderabad on Wednesday, he welcomed new members from various parties, including lawyers, BRS and Youth Congress leaders into the saffron party fold. Rao asserted that the influx, especially youth, reflects public faith in BJP's commitment to India's culture, unity, integrity, and Dharma under PM Narendra Modi. He went on to add that Maoist violence over 45 years caused innocent deaths, but India is nearing Naxal-free status by March 31, 2026.

BJP alleges law & order collapse in Telangana

Voicing grave concerns over the deteriorating law and order situation in the state, Mr Rao accused the police of one-sided arrests in Banswada where 27 individuals, mainly BJP-affiliated Hindu youth, were jailed following a bandh call by Hindu organizations, with others labeled absconding and their families harassed. He alleged involvement of Congress and Majlis party workers in the attack on BJP MLA K Venkat Ramana Reddy's camp office in Kamareddy, and described the assault on female advocate Smt. Gouti Kalyani in Rudrur was inhuman, signaling weakened law enforcement.

Rao criticized the rising anarchy in northern Telangana linked to Majlis party elements, claiming police are succumbing to ruling party pressures by filing cases against victims rather than perpetrators. He referenced recent attacks on temples in Jubilee Hills (Ammavari temple), Barkas (Hanuman temple), Safilguda (Mutyalamma temple), and Keesara (Hanuman temple), questioning if a pattern exists and who is orchestrating it, while blaming the crisis on Congress government's appeasement politics and holding the Chief Minister—also the Home Minister—directly accountable for these failures.

A BJP delegation, led by Rao, submitted a detailed representation to Director General of Police (DGP) Shivdhar Reddy, highlighting three violent incidents in Banswada, Kamareddy town, and Rudrur (Nizamabad district) as evidence of a complete breakdown in rule of law.

In Banswada, a Hindu woman at a Reliance Mart store played a devotional song to Goddess Durga, prompting objection and abuse from a Muslim employee. When her brother intervened, the employee and community members allegedly attacked them, escalating into a mob pelting stones at Hindu homes and the police station. BJP condemned this as organized criminal intimidation, demanding answers on the dispute's rapid spiral, mob mobilization, and police delays. They called for impartial arrests under IPC provisions for all involved.

In Kamareddy, on February 22, 2026, about 500 Congress workers attacked BJP MLA Reddy's camp office during a "debate" over land acquired by Kamareddy Colleges Educational Society in 1964 (268.04 acres, later reduced to 158 acres transferred to government in 2015, with two acres leased to RSS-affiliated Vidya Samithi for Saraswati Shishu Mandir). Tensions led to slogans and scuffles; BJP urged action against Congress workers and preventive vigilance.

The Rudrur incident, also on February 22, saw 12-year-old Mohammed Ahmed quarrel with Dalmalka Babloo, later attacking him with community members using sticks. When advocate Kalyani, Sirigandam Sayanna, Gangadhar, and others intervened, they were injured. Kalyani filed a complaint, but BJP alleged inaction.

The delegation, including MLCs C. Anji Reddy and Malka Komaraiah, MLAs A. Maheshwar Reddy and Paidi Rakesh Reddy, State General Secretary Dr. N. Goutham Rao, Yendala Laxminarayana, B.B. Patil, and others, demanded immediate impartial probes, arrests in Banswada, action on Congress workers, vigilance in Kamareddy, instructions to Rudrur PS, and withdrawal of false cases against BJP workers.

Post-meeting, Rao told the media the DGP assured thorough inquiry, emphasizing the government's duty to protect citizens without bias and restore public trust.