Hyderabad, Nov. 25 -- TelanganaCongress party general secretary Uzma Shakir staged a protest outside the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) headquarters in Hyderabad on Wednesday. Shakir was protesting against BJP state chief and Karimnagar member of Parliament Bandi Sanjay Kumar's incendiary statement a day earlier, wherein he said that a "surgical strike" would be undertaken in the Old City.

The saffron party's campaign has been shrill in the run up to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) elections andfoul-mouthed leaders like Sanjay have been passing inflammatory comments in their campaign programs.

On Wednesday, Shakir went to the BJP's headquarters alone, holding a red placard, and started raising slogans of "BJP hai hai ...