New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday, October 22, lifted the suspension it placed on Telangana MLA T. Raja Singh for alleged derogatory comments he made about Prophet Muhammad. The party’s Central Disciplinary Committee told Singh on Sunday that the suspension was revoked forthwith on the basis of his reply to the show-cause notice issued to him.
Raja Singh was suspended by the BJP in August last year after his comments caused communal tensions in Hyderabad. Telangana’s assembly elections will be held on November 30 and Singh, who has over 100 criminal cases against him, will contest once again from the Goshamahal constituency.
The MLA shared the letter he received from the BJP’s disciplinary committee on X (formerly Twitter) and thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP president J.P. Nadda, and other leaders for revoking his susepnsion.
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Singh was arrested by the Hyderabad police in August under the Preventive Detention Act for hurting the religious sentiments of the minority community.
In November last year, the Telangana high court released him while laying down three strict conditions. Justices A. Abhishek Reddy and Juvvadi Sridevi said he “shall not participate in or hold any celebratory rallies/meetings after his release”; shall be prohibited from giving “any interviews to any kind of media houses including the print media”; and “shall not make any provocative speeches against any religion or post any derogatory or offensive posts on any social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, YouTube, etc.”
However, as The Wire has reported, he has violated these conditions more than once and has made hate speeches on several occassions. He has, however, not been arrested again.