A day after Munawar Faruqui announced his show in Hyderabad on August 20, Bharatiya Janata Party MLA T Raja Singh on Thursday threatened to burn down the venue and beat up the comedian, the Hindustan Times reported.
Hindutva groups and BJP leaders have constantly targeted Faruqui since he was arrested in January last year in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore on flimsy grounds.
In an Instagram post on Wednesday, Faruqui had announced his show in the Telangana capital. He did not specify the venue in his post.
Soon after, Singh, the BJP’s MLA from the state’s Goshamahal constituency, released a video message threatening to disrupt the show.
“Wherever the program is, we will go and beat him [Faruqui] up,” Singh said in the video, according to The News Minute. “Whoever offers him a venue, we will burn it down. If something goes wrong, KTR [Telangana minister KT Rama Rao] and the government and police are responsible. We will definitely beat him up and send him back if he…
