Why T Raja Singh, Hindutva’s poster boy, continues to be a headache for Telangana BJP?


In a letter to G Kishan Reddy, President of BJP Telangana unit, T Raja Singh mentioned that the choice to nominate Ramchander Rao because the BJP state president got here as a ‘shock and disappointment’ to him.

Hyderabad:

Telangana Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) MLA T Raja Singh on Monday tendered resignation from celebration amid a management tussle within the Telangana unit of the celebration. He introduced the choice to resign from celebration shortly after media stories instructed that N Ramchander Rao is about to be the brand new president of BJP’s Telangana unit.

In a letter to G Kishan Reddy, President of BJP Telangana unit, the BJP MLA mentioned that the choice to nominate Ramchander Rao because the BJP state president got here as a ‘shock and disappointment’ to him.

What Raja Singh mentioned in X

“As per media stories, Shri Ramchander Rao is about to be appointed as the brand new BJP State President for Telangana. This resolution has come as a shock and disappointment, not simply to me, however to lakhs of Karyakartas, leaders, and voters who’ve stood by the celebration by way of each excessive and low,” Singh mentioned within the letter shared by him on X (previously Twitter).

“There are various succesful senior leaders, MLAs, and MPs inside our state who’ve tirelessly labored for the expansion of BJP and who’ve the power, credibility, and join to guide the celebration ahead,” he added.

Why Raja Singh is a headache for Telangana BJP

Presently an MLA from Goshamahal Meeting constituency, Thakur Raja Singh is thought for his controversial speeches and has ceaselessly confronted legal instances. Earlier, he was suspended from the celebration on 23 August 2022 for his remarks on prophet Muhammad, through the 2022 Muhammad remarks controversy, however his suspension was revoked on 22 October 2023, in order that he might take part within the meeting elections.

[Raja Singh so far has 105 criminal cases registered against him, of which 18 were related to communal offences.

Raja Singh was in April 2010 arrested on charge of fanning communal clashes in Hyderabad and in 2012, when he was the Mangalhat representative for GHMC, Hyderabad Police nabbed him for theft and other crimes. They claimed he had knowingly purchased and had been using a stolen Toyota Qualis that belonged to the Government of Kerala for the past two years.

Raja Singh was in 2017 embroiled in various alleged hate speech controversies, including his remarks in May 2017 where he called the Old City area in Hyderabad “mini Pakistan.”

In July 2017, he urged the Hindu community in West Bengal to respond in a manner similar to the 2002 Gujarat riots and he also repeatedly called for the establishment of a Hindu Rashtra by armed means.

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