Hyderabad: Bandi Sanjay Kumar, the leader of the Telangana Bharatiya Janata Party, was taken into custody by the Telangana Police on Tuesday in the Jangaon district.

BJP leader and official spokesperson N.V Subash confirmed reports of his arrested. Bandi was protesting the arrest of BJP workers in Hyderabad in Jangaon District, said Subash.

He was staging a Dharma Deeksha demonstration in opposition to the Hyderabad police's arrest of BJP members who were reportedly responsible for Monday's attack on MLC Kavitha's home.

taking to Twitter earlier in the day, Bandi Sanjay Kumar SAID, "There is clear proof that TRS goons have attacked BJP workers. Democracy permits to protest, but case of attempt to murder against BJP leaders was done based on instruction of Chief Minister's office. Keeping seriously injured leaders and activists in the police station without even providing treatment to the police is the worst". Demanding better medical treatment for the injured BJP workers, he stressed that the truth in the liquor scam must be exposed. 

Raja Singh, a BJP MLA, was earlier detained by Hyderabad Police on Tuesday after he allegedly made a derogatory comment against the Prophet Muhammad.

On Tuesday morning, Raja Singh was the subject of a FIR from Hyderabad South Zone Police. At the Dabeerpura Police Station, the FIR was filed against him in accordance with sections 153a, 295, and 505 of the Indian Penal Code.

Late on Monday, after Singh, the MLA from Goshamahal, released a video in which he is alleged to have made the statements, protests broke out in several areas of Hyderabad. Demonstrators gathered in front of the city police commissioner's office and demanded that the BJP MLA be punished right away.

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