Overview
- Hyderabad police confirmed an FIR after a GHMC employee’s December 6 complaint about posters targeting Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy near Gandhi Bhavan.
- The BJP’s social media convenor Sumiran Komarraju and associates Ajay and Tatipamula Sai Kiran Goud were detained and booked, with notices later served by Abids police.
- Legal provisions reported to have been invoked include BNS Sections 352, 353(1)(c) and 353(2), though police have not publicly detailed the full set of charges.
- BJP leaders condemned the action as politically motivated, with national figures like Amit Malviya and Union minister G. Kishan Reddy calling it an assault on free speech and backing a ‘Maha Dharna’ in Hyderabad.
- The poster, shared on X and pasted near the Congress headquarters, listed allegations such as a ‘secret deal with KCR/KTR,’ control of real estate by the chief minister’s family, payments to Delhi, temple demolitions and a 25% commission on projects, claims Congress leaders rejected while defending their governance.