State president of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Karimnagar MP Bandi Sanjay Kumar along with several other activists of the party was arrested by the police at Bhiknoor toll gate in Kamareddy district on Friday, when they were on way to Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies (RGUKT, also known as IIIT) at Basar in Nirmal district.
According to the information reaching here, the convoy of BJP activists’ vehicles led by that of Mr. Sanjay was stopped by the police at the Bhiknoor toll gate and told that they were not allowed to proceed to Basar as their visit was not permitted. Mr. Sanjay argued with the police that he was going there only to learn the problems of the students agitating for the last four days demanding appointment of faculty and improvement of infrastructure.
Expressing anger at the police, Mr. Sanjay sought to know whether the students were terrorists and why power and water supply was stopped to their hostels. He also questioned the police for stopping him while he was on way to meet the students and enquire about their problems. Stating that all the students studying in IIIT belonged to poor families, he asked whether asking for basic facilities was a sin.
