SAFFRON SCALE-UP

Telangana BJP president 'Bandi' Sanjay is seldom hesitant to take on Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao.

- Amarnath K. Menon

On April 7, he dared KCR to order a judicial inquiry by a sitting high court judge into the alleged circulation of the Hindi question papers of the current Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations on a messaging app, if he genuinely wanted to bring the real culprits to justice.

The dare came from Sanjay soon after he was released on bail, following a court order. He was arrested on April 6. Earlier, while in prison, he wrote a letter to the BJP cadres, stating his arrest was a conspiracy of the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS). "Arresting me and harassing the BJP workers is like throwing a ball against the ground. We shall only bounce back with the same force," he wrote.

Sanjay is tagged as accused No.1 in the SSC paper leak case-with non-bailable provisions that entail three to seven years of imprisonment. Besides Sanjay, the police named nine others as accused, including a minor boy.