Hyderabad, Feb. 1 -- The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has decided to organise statewide protests on Sunday, February 1, against what it termed as the Telangana government's "vindictive attitude" towards party president and former chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao (KCR).

The party said the protests would be peaceful in nature. As part of the agitation, effigies of the government would be burnt in more than 1,200 villages across the state.

Bike rallies, black-flag demonstrations, dharnas and road blockades would be held at municipal and Assembly constituency headquarters, the BRS informed.

Senior BRS leaders Madhu Sudhanachari, Talasani Srinivas Yadav, Sabitha Indra Reddy, Padma Rao, Prashanth Reddy, Satyavathi Rathod, Karne Prabhakar a...