Telangana police have arrested Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader Manne Krishank under charges of trespassing into TPCC leader Gundamalla Rajendra Kumar's residence and attacking him over a social media post.
Police action to stop BRS leaders from visiting Parigi has escalated a political clash, with the party accusing the Telangana government of targeting voices backing protesting farmers.
BRS leader Ravula Sridhar Reddy on Tuesday criticised the proposed Hate Speech & Hate Crimes (Prevention) Bill, 2026, stating that while it is the responsibility of an elected government to safeguard fundamental rights, the Bill appears to deviate from that objective.
Telangana Assembly Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar on Wednesday dismissed the petitions for the disqualification of two BRS MLAs who had allegedly switched loyalties to the Congress in 2024.
BRS working president KT Rama Rao accused the Speaker of acting on the orders of Chief Minister Revanth Reddy and tagged it as a murder of democracy.
This included Lagacharla village, where recently the police and local administration were indicted for violating the human rights of landowners unwilling to part with their land.
The Telangana BJP has accused the BRS, Congress, and AIMIM of colluding to defeat its candidate as polling for the MLC seat for the Hyderabad local authorities constituency was held on Wednesday.
Rao said, “I am demanding this from the BJP and Prime Minister Modi – if you want to bring out the truth about what this Congress government did wrong, and the guilty should be punished, why are you still silent even after the recommendation of the CEC?
The Opposition BRS has sent a lengthy representation to the members of the Central Empowered Committee (CEC) of the Union Environment Ministry accusing the state government of violating several central and state forest laws while felling trees on the 400 acres of land of Kancha Gachibowli
In an effort to form a coalition of the willing to stall the impending threat of the delimitation exercise, Chief Minister MK Stalin on Friday written to seven of his counterparts, including Mamata Banerjee of West Bengal, Bhagwant Maan of Punjab, and BJP’s Mohan Chandra Mahji of Odisha, inviting them to Chennai on March 22 to chart a joint action plan.
