Suspended Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader T Raja Singh has claimed that a terrorist outfit has planned to target him during the Ram Navami procession in Hyderabad on March 31.
T Raja Singh shared a letter written by a resident of Hyderabad to the commissioner of police, claiming that a terrorist organisation planned to bomb the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy, state BJP office, and the Ram Navami procession on Thursday.
The letter, written by Uma Maheswari, alleged that the main target of the terrorist working for Bahrain-based Mukhtar Brigades is T Raja Singh.
Singh, who is slated to lead the procession, asked state Home Minister Mahmood Ali, Director General of Police, and the police commissioner if they verified the claims made in the letter. "Update us abt this as Lakhs of Ram Bhakts joins this procession [sic]," Singh tweeted.
According to a report by news agency IANS, T Raja Singh had last month lodged a complaint with the police, stating that he was receiving threat calls from Pakistani phone numbers. "I have been receiving threatening calls every day. I have given written complaints many times to the police department when the callers are aggressive and abusive but no action has been taken. Not even one person has been arrested who threatened me as of now," Raja Singh was quoted by IANS.
T Raja Singh was arrested in August last year for allegedly making derogatory remarks against Prophet Muhammad. He was sent to jail on August 25 after the Hyderabad police commissioner invoked the Preventive Detention Act. The BJP also suspended him from the organisation.