HYDERABAD: Senior Congress leaders Balmoor Venkat and Dayakar, along with others, met Telangana DGP CV Anand on Wednesday and lodged a complaint against BRS leader Balka Suman over alleged provocative and inflammatory remarks encouraging militant activities.The complaint comes amid a fresh controversy after a video purportedly showed Suman asking party workers to “burn down offices” and “plan militant activities”. The clip went viral on social media, drawing sharp criticism from both the Congress and the BJP.The Congress leaders have sought strict legal action against the BRS leader over the alleged remarks.Speaking to ANI, he criticised Suman, alleging that the BRS leader had become an anti-social element in the state. He further said that the Congress party had urged the DGP to register a suo motu case against him and take him into custody. “Yesterday, BRS party MP Balka Suman uttered a few words, which created a huge movement in Telangana state, because he said that to remove the railway tracks as well as to burn the public offices in Singareni Bhavan, which is absolutely wrong. He is trying to provoke people, and he has become an antisocial element in the state. So we have requested the DGP to file a suo moto case against him and take him into custody and inquire what they are planning to do in Telangana state, and stop it,” he said.Earlier on Tuesday, Suman, in the purported video, said that party members had staged a protest on the National Highway in solidarity with farmers. Referring to the relatively low turnout of farmers at the protest, he allegedly urged party workers to organise themselves and carry out activities such as burning down the General Manager’s office and Singareni Bhavan, planning militant activities, and disrupting railway lines to draw attention.He also allegedly told party workers not to fear judicial punishment. “Are the farmers coming onto the roads? Yesterday, in Bheemaram, our people blockaded the National Highway. Only five farmers showed up; 60 to 70 of them were our own people. Earlier, near Kishtampeta in Chennur, they sat on the national highway, where only four or five of them were farmers. Again, a hundred of them were our own people, and the farmers are not showing up. “We have to do militant activities. “It’s not about just talking, or holding meetings or press meets. Organise a program in the Mandamarri division, let’s go and burn down the entire GM’s (General Manager’s) office. At worst, we will go to jail for a month. Therefore, you must seriously plan militant activities as well. If necessary, go to Singareni Bhavan and set it on fire and destroy it completely. That feeling should come, that sense of ownership should come for our union and our leadership. Therefore, plan militant activities. We have so many railway lines in our area, cut them off one day and organise a program, call it ‘Rail Roko’,” Suman said.(With agency inputs)
