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Addressing a public meeting at Hanamkonda town, he slammed Chief Minister KCR for imposing restrictions on public meetings and compared this with the last diktat of Nawab Mir Osman Ali Khan, the last ruler of the erstwhile Hyderabad state. Nadda was addressing the public meeting at Hanamkonda Arts College ground to mark the culmination of the third phase of state BJP chief Bandi Sanjay Kumar's Praja Sangrama Yatra.

Police took the MLA into custody from his residence in Mangalhat amid tight security and continuing protests for his re-arrest for allegedly making derogatory comments about Prophet Muhammad. Raja Singh, who has been arrested for second time in three days, was later shifted to Cherlapally Jail on the city outskirts.

Raja Singh, who was arrested on Tuesday morning, was presented at Nampally Criminal Court amid tight security and high tension due to protests by his supporters and those opposed to him. Police had resorted to baton charge to disperse the two groups who were raising slogans against each other. Fourteenth Additional Metropolitan Magistrate remanded Raja Singh to judicial custody for two weeks.

After BJP activists stepped in to prevent police from arresting Sanjay this morning, the situation turned tense. However, police deployed in large numbers managed to take the BJP leader away even as his supporters tried to block the path at several points on the route.

Addressing a massive public meeting at Parade Grounds, he exuded confidence that the BJP will come to power in Telangana. He, however, surprisingly avoided criticizing KCR or his government. As the public meeting was held a day after KCR launched a bitter attack on Modi and dared him to answer his questions, it was expected that the Prime Minister would give a strong counter.

The saffron party is working hard to increase its foothold in the southern states of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. The party is in power in Karnataka where Assembly elections will be held in the first half of next year, while Telangana will go to the polls at the end of 2023. Modi will be the face of BJP's campaign against Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao's Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) in Telangana.

Addressing a public meeting at Tukkuguda near Hyderabad, he said that the BJP workers are being killed in broad daylight in Telangana. He said the BJP has the right to go before the people of Telangana with its ideology and programme. "KCR wants to make Telangana another Bengal. Will you allow this," he asked the people and said he has to be stopped from doing this.

The minister said the governor will have to choose one. "There is a saying: running with the hare and hunting with the hounds. You cannot have a dual role. You can't be Telangana BJP leader and at the same time a governor," he said during an interaction with a select group of journalists.

Political parties and academicians see this as an attempt to impose a particular language on India though unity in diversity is the country's strength. They warn that this regional chauvinism will boomerang. Some political leaders have slammed the BJP for what they call its double-standards on the language issue, and dared the party to start imposing Hindi from Gujarat.