Midnight pedestal, midday silence
Narsampet officials tore down the pedestal for former BRS MLA Peddi Sudarshan Reddy’s statue at night. On private land, opposite the government medical college. BRS hit the streets; the Congress-led administration has yet to explain what rule it used — or why it needed the dark.
The pedestal was removed at night; the rule and notice cited for the action remain unclear.
Here’s what is on the record, without the midnight fog. Multiple reports say Narsampet municipal officials demolished the pedestal built to install former BRS MLA Peddi Sudarshan Reddy’s statue late at night, opposite the government medical college, on land described as private. Vidhatha and Kalam Daily both cite the same official line: no permission for the installation.
BRS leaders called it retaliation and protested across Narsampet and nearby mandals. The supplied report carries K.T. Rama Rao’s charge that the Congress government leaned on police to remove the statue and called the act “barbaric”, and lists party leaders detained or held at home ahead of protests. Those are political allegations; the exact count of detentions and the legal sections used have not been put on the record.
The municipality’s homework, meanwhile, has not been shown. No published order, no notice, no citation of the specific rule that lets officials bulldoze a structure on private land at midnight. Kalam Daily’s questions are basic: was any permission sought, under which clause was demolition done, and was notice served? The Congress government in Telangana hasn’t bothered to answer them — but it did find the time of night that avoids cameras.