Even as Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee president A Revanth Reddy’s call to Maoists to blow up Pragati Bhavan, the official bungalow of chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, with grenades has kicked up a big political row, Bharatiya Janata Party state president Bandi Sanjay also made a similar comment on Friday.
Addressing a party workers’ meeting at Boinpally in Hyderabad, Sanjay said if Bharatiya Janata Party is voted to power in Telangana, it would demolish the domes of newly-built state secretariat that reflect the culture of the Nizams.
He said the forthcoming BJP government would wipe out all kinds of structures that are symbols of slavery of the Nizam regime.
“If we are voted to power, we shall destroy the cultural symbols of the Nizam in Telangana, including the domes of the newly-built Secretariat,” he said.
Sanjay declared that the BJP would make suitable changes that reflect the Indian and Telangana culture.
“Chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao had converted the peoples' secretariat into a samadhi like Tajmahal only to appease the Owaisis,” he said.
Sanjay also announced that Pragati Bhavan, the official bungalow of the chief minister, would also be converted into a Praja Darbar.
Reacting to the chief minister’s statement that the government would demolish places of worship that cause hurdles for the expansion of roads, the BJP president challenged KCR to demolish, if he could, the mosques that were built in the middle of the roads in the old city of Hyderabad.
“The chief minister is confined to either farmhouse or Pragati Bhavan and is least bothered about the people. Till now, the government employees haven’t got their salaries and development has taken a back seat,” he said.