BJP slams Telangana on Assemanand bail issue

The BJP on Saturday said the Telangana government’s statement that it would take steps to get the bail granted to 2007 Mecca Masjid bomb blast accused Swami Aseemanand cancelled was an “insult to judiciary and legal system”. “BJP strongly condemns and disapproves home minister Nayani Narasimha Reddy’s statement in the legislative assembly on Friday in response to an AIMIM MLA’s contention on the bail,” party spokesperson Krishna Saagar Rao said. “BJP considers it as insult to judiciary and the legal system of India, which provides bail as a fundamental right of an undertrial...,” he said.