NEW DELHI: J.P. Nadda, the BJP's national president, said on Monday that the arrest of the party's Telangana unit president Bandi Sanjay Kumar is "another glaring example of the state government's murder of democracy and fundamental rights."

Nadda said in a statement that the manner in which Telangana police forcibly entered the office of the BJP state president on Sunday night under the pressure of the KCR government and resorted to violence and lathicharge, thrashed and manhandled senior party leaders and workers is highly deplorable and condemnable.

Teachers and staff from the Telangana state government had come to Kumar's Karimnagar Lok Sabha office to file a complaint against the KCR government's regressive Order No 317 against the teachers and employees, according to Nadda. "Kumar ji, along with BJP leaders and workers, sat on a night-long vigil and fast to show his solidarity with the agitating teachers and employees at his office," Nadda continued, adding that the KCR government in Telangana was so afraid of the peaceful protest by the BJP state president, party workers, and aggrieved teachers and employees that it ordered the state police to launch an attack on the peaceful protest.

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