CM Revanth Reddy running police raj in Telangana, alleges BRS MLC Dasoju Sravan

Hyderabad: BRS MLC Dr Dasoju Sravan on Thursday accused Chief Minister Revanth Reddy of transforming Telangana into a police state, alleging a sweeping crackdown on dissent, rising crime, and politicisation of the police force.

Speaking at Telangana Bhavan, Sravan claimed over 5,000 cases had been registered against BRS workers statewide since the Congress government came to power. He charged that the administration was using the police to suppress protests and intimidate political opponents.

He criticised the CM for turning the Hyderabad Command and Control Centre established under KCR to modernise policing into a political war room. He pointed to the Medak MLA allegedly directing police from atop a vehicle in Malkajgiri as evidence of growing lawlessness.

Sravan highlighted a 43% increase in overall crime, citing official figures. Rape cases, he said, had risen by 28.9%, with an average of eight reported daily. Hyderabad alone recorded a 41% spike in crime.

He alleged the CM had failed to conduct a single Home Department review meeting and was instead preoccupied with attacking BRS leaders while ignoring governance.

The MLC also accused Malkajgiri MLA Mynampally Hanumantha Rao and his son of assaulting members of the BC-Yadav community and said Gellu Srinivas Yadav’s wife was being harassed in a politically motivated case.

He contrasted police inaction during CM Revanth’s wife Geetha’s protest with the jailing of BRS leader Shashidhar Goud for 17 days over a social media post.

Calling the current state of affairs a mockery of democracy, Sravan claimed attacks had been orchestrated on BRS leaders and their properties, including MLA Palla Rajeshwar Reddy, Bhupal Reddy, Padi Kaushik Reddy, and KTR’s office in Sircilla.

Mocking SIT probes as “Netflix web series,” he warned of inevitable consequences if law enforcement continued to operate outside legal norms.

Sravan urged the CM to hand over the Home portfolio if he could not manage it and appealed to the public to resist what he termed a complete breakdown of democratic governance in Telangana.