Congress’s black-magic politics reaches court
BRS leader Harish Rao has pursued a criminal defamation complaint over allegations attributed to two Congress leaders. The court process is still less clear than the political theatre.
The complaint over alleged ‘black magic’ remarks now has a place on the court calendar.
Telangana politics has apparently run out of ordinary accusations and arrived at occult rituals. BRS leader T. Harish Rao has approached the Special Judicial First Class Magistrate Court for elected representatives at Nampally with a criminal defamation complaint against Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee president B. Mahesh Kumar Goud and Congress MLC Addanki Dayakar.
Reports say Rao alleges that the two leaders portrayed his visit to the Kollur Mookambika Devi Temple in Karnataka as “black magic” or occult activity, including an alleged claim that he wanted to prevent rain in Telangana. Those remarks, and who made them, remain disputed; the court has not found the allegations true or false. The complaint is reported to have been filed under Section 356 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, with video material and newspaper clippings submitted on pen drives, according to reporting based on the complaint.
Rao appeared before the court on September 24 and said the political discourse could not sink lower. The reported next step is muddier: one report says statements from the Congress leaders are due on September 30, while others describe a further recording of Rao’s statement. The court’s order-sheet was not publicly located. Mahesh Kumar Goud and Addanki Dayakar have not publicly answered the complaint in the material reviewed. For now, Congress has managed to turn a temple visit into a court calendar item. That is one way to conduct politics in Telangana.