BJP MLA T Raja Singh from Telangana and 4 others have been on Friday taken into preventive custody once they have been en path to the venue of a present by humorist Munawar Faruqui in Hyderabad.

Final week, Singh had threatened to assault the comic and in addition burn down the venue if the Telangana authorities, dominated by the Telangana Rashtra Samithi, allowed Faruqui to carry out within the metropolis.

Singh was taken into custody from his residence in Mangalhat and can be launched later, police stated.

In a video message that was shared broadly on social media, the BJP lawmaker stated the comic had cracked jokes on Hindu gods and shouldn’t be permitted to carry out in Hyderabad.

“Allow them to see what’s going to occur if he’s invited to stage a present in Hyderabad. Wherever the programme is held, we will beat him up. Whoever affords him a venue, we will set it afire,” Singh stated within the video.

He additionally challenged “educating” Faruqui a lesson for “abusing” Lord Ram if he got here to Telangana.

Faruqui will carry out his present – Dongri to Nowhere – in Hyderabad tomorrow (August 20). He had introduced the identical on Instagram on August 10.

The comic was initially alleged to carry out within the Telangana capital on January 9, however the present was cancelled on account of a spike in Covid-19 circumstances within the southern state. Even then, the Telangana BJP stated it won’t enable Faruqui to carry out.

Final 12 months in December, Telangana chief minister Okay Chandrashekhar Rao’s son and state IT minister KT Rama Rao gave an “open invite” to comedians like Faruqui and Kunal Kamra, who usually attracts the wrath of right-wing teams.

“Hyderabad is really cosmopolitan and affords stand-up comedians an open invite. We don’t cancel exhibits of Munawar Faruqui and Kunal Kamra simply because we aren’t aligned with them politically,” KTR had stated on the time.

A number of exhibits of Faruqui have been cancelled over the previous few months, with most being in BJP-ruled states. In November, his present in Bengaluru was cancelled after a stir by Hindu right-wing teams. Moreover, his exhibits in Goa, Gujarat and Chhattisgarh, amongst others, have been cancelled following threats from right-wing teams.

Faruqui was arrested in January for insulting Hindu gods and goddesses in one among his exhibits in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. He was granted bail by the Supreme Court docket in February after it known as the FIR lodged in opposition to the comic “obscure”.

(With company inputs)