Tension prevailed in the Chengicherla area of Medchal district, after BJP workers led by party general secretary Bandi Sanjay Kumar broke police barricades and tried to meet victims of an alleged attack by local slaughterhouse workers on Wednesday.
The slaughterhouse workers allegedly attacked tribal women and children during Holi festival for playing songs on a loudspeaker on Monday. Sanjay deplored that the police foisted `attempt to murder’ cases against the victims, leaving attackers scot free.
BJP workers, including women, gathered in large numbers at the basti where the tribal women were allegedly attacked and raised slogans against the government. The BJP workers clashed with police personnel and broke barricades.
Sanjay took serious objection to the police personnel putting up barricades in the area where the incident took place. A heated argument broke out between Sanjay and police officials and he demanded them to immediately remove the barricades.
He expressed his anger over the imposition of barricades by the police. Whether we are in the restricted area of Chengicharla in Pakistan or Bangladesh, shere all the victims are poor?, he asked. He deplored that while the victims are struggling for food, those also stop those who come to help them.
Since the BJP workers outnumbered the police personnel posted at the basti, they broke the barricades and barged into the colony. Sanjay interacted with the women who were injured in the incident and assured them help and protection.
Later speaking to the media, Sanjay demanded the government to take stringent action against the guilty. He accused the police of taking the side of the slaughterhouse management and of registering false cases against the poor tribal women.
According to him, the people of the ST community here have a tradition of worshiping the goddess with devotional songs on the Holi festival, but some Rohingyas and hooligans came here and threatened to stop the singing, and hundreds of anti-social forces attacked the houses of the victims with deadly weapons.
He said that many people were seriously injured in their attack, the victims did not go to the mosque or the area where the Rohingyas were, but they came to the victims and assaulted them indiscriminately, regardless of whether they were young or old. “The hooligans came to basti and attacked the women and children, hence cases should be booked against them, not the women,” he added.
