The upcoming byelection to the Munugode assembly seat would have been a routine headline in another time. But this time, it’s set against a red-hot context: the BJP is going for broke to displace the Congress as the main challenger to the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) in the 2023 assembly polls, so an escalation of the pitch is audible on all planes. Hyderabad, 80-odd km west of Munugode, was boiling after a replay of the Nupur Sharma episode—with the BJP suspending MLA T. Raja Singh on August 23, hours after he was arrested for a video containing insulting references to Prophet Mohammed. The day saw another high-profile BJP arrest: state unit chief Bandi Sanjay was picked from a protest site after the BJP scaled up hostilities by alleging that Kalvakuntla Kavitha, TRS MLC and daughter of CM K. Chandrashekar Rao (KCR), was linked to the Delhi liquor scam, a claim she responded to with a defamation case.
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