Telangana BJP State President and Karimnagar MP Bandi Sanjay Kumar has been filmed delivering a fiery speech on Sunday. A video doing rounds on the Internet shows the saffron leader saying that those hands which harm a particular community will be chopped off.

"If someone lays a finger on you in the Old City, we will chop those hands in the new city (of Hyderabad)," he said, where 'we' refers to the BJP. As he uttered those words, the cadres of the saffron party broke into 'Jai Sri Ram' slogans.

Earlier, Sanjay Kumar accused the TRS government of deliberately under-reporting coronavirus cases in Telangana ahead of Ramzan. "And they suddenly started overplaying the problem as Vinayaka Chavithi neared. The government didn't want the Hindu society to unite during the Ganesh festival," he added.