Congress finds certainty before the FIRs
A disputed turmeric-water episode has produced arrests, an inquiry and a caste charge. The evidence has not yet produced a finding.
The inquiry continues while the competing claims remain disputed.
The Congress has already reached the verdict in Telangana’s turmeric-water row. The police and courts are still working through the paperwork.
The documented sequence is narrower: a confrontation involving BRS legislators outside the Assembly on September 7; the arrests of BRS MLCs Tata Madhu and Naveen Kumar Reddy over alleged remarks about Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar; a Congress-linked protest near K Chandrashekar Rao’s Erravalli farmhouse on September 8; and reports of turmeric-water sprinkling near the route on September 9. The two MLCs were later released on personal bond, and the Telangana High Court directed police to issue notices to 21 accused instead of immediately arresting them. [1]
The Congress has called the reported act an anti-Dalit exercise. Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy said the “mindset of untouchability” needed to change and ordered an inquiry. That is a political charge, not an investigative finding. The material reviewed does not establish who authorised the act, whether it was aimed at Dalit protesters, or what exactly was said outside the Assembly. The BRS’s full response and the FIRs have also not been published in the available record.
Three cases, one inquiry and plenty of certainty. The Congress government has managed to issue the conclusion before producing the documents.