The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) on Wednesday demanded the disqualification of Telangana BJP chief Bandi Sanjay from Parliament following his arrest in the SSC examination question paper leak.
Telangana state ministers and other BRS leaders demanded that Sanjay should be disqualified from the Lok Sabha immediately for committing a serious offence. They also demanded strict action against him for the alleged paper leak.
BRS working president KT Rama Rao on Wednesday alleged that BJP leaders were playing with the lives of innocent students and unemployed youth by leaking question papers for their "selfish" politics.
Taking to Twitter, KTR said, "If a madman has a stone in his hand, there is a danger to passersby but if a party is in the hands of the same madman, it is a danger to democracy."
Telangana Finance Minister T Harish Rao alleged that Bandi Sanjay was the mastermind behind the Hindi question paper leak of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and claimed that he was caught red-handed.
Harish Rao alleged that, unable to fight BRS politically, the BJP leader was playing with the children's future.
Harish Rao said that Prashanth, who was arrested for leaking a question paper in Warangal on Tuesday, worked for the BJP and provided Bandi Sanjay with the paper while the exam was still taking place. "This was a plot to defame the Telangana government but he has been caught red-handed," said the minister.
The minister said the accused called Bandi Sanjay several times on his mobile and shared the leaked question paper widely on social media to defame the government.
He pointed out that on Tuesday, BJP leaders in Warangal staged a protest demanding arrests in the paper leak case but in the evening, they demanded the release of the accused in the case.