HYDERABAD/KARIMNAGAR: After spending three days and two nights at Karimnagar district jail, BJP state president Bandi Sanjay Kumar walked out to a warm welcome by party workers on Wednesday after the Telangana High Court ordered the prisons department to release him. Union Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilisers Bhagwanth Khuba who waited outside the jail congratulated Sanjay as he came out even as scores of party activists raised slogans in his support.
Sanjay was arrested on Sunday amidst high voltage drama while he was on a deeksha at his office in Karimnagar. He was produced in court the next day, which remanded him to judicial custody for 14 days. The Telangana High Court, after hearing arguments on his bail petition, found fault with the lower court for mechanically passing the remand order and directed the DG of Prisons to set him free forthwith on furnishing a personal bond. After his release from the prison, Sanjay once again hauled the TRS government over the coals for its dictatorial policies.
“Don’t gloat over the fact that you were successful in sending me to jail. I am proud to say that I went to jail for the cause of teachers. In fact, it is the ninth time I have been sent to jail but each time it is for espousing the people’s cause and not because I did something illegal,” he said and vowed to continue his fight until the state government repealed the “highly discriminatory” GO 317 on transfers of teachers and government employees.
