T agitation to be intensified from April 20

Telangana Political Joint Action Committee convenor Kodandaram on Tuesday stated that separate statehood agitation will be intensified from April 20 onwards across the ten Telangana districts after public meetings are organised to create awareness among the people on the eighth chapter of the Justice Srikrishna Committee Report.

Talking to media persons after convening a meeting with District Joint Action Committee members to chalk out the future course of plan over the Telangana agitation at JAC Office at New MLA Quarters in Adarshnagar, Prof Kodandaram said the activists and experts would create awareness among Telangana people on the controversial eighth chapter, which suggests that the any newly carved out state would be rocked by communal violence and infested with Maoists.

The Tpjac convenor said the awareness camps would be conducted in all the ten districts from April 11. The camps would make people aware over the ‘conspiracy’ by the Srikrishna Committee members to water down the Telangana agitation.

Prof Kodandaram said the agitation was aimed to mount pressure on the Centre to introduce the Telangana Bill in Parliament. The agitation will also target Ministers and MLAs hailing from the Telangana region.

He also denied that there is a lull in the Telangana agitation on account of elections to five state Assemblies, and said that the separate statehood demand is still there. “In fact, this is the time to intensify the agitation and mount pressure on the Centre so that it would yield to the demand of a separate state,” Prof Kodandaram stated.

The Tpjac convenor also said that the pro-Telangana parties have not changed their stand vis-a-vis former Kadapa MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy. He said that Mr Jaganmohan Reddy hails from Seemandhra regions and is known to favour an integrated Andhra Pradesh.

“If the Tpjac constituents ally with Mr Jaganmohan Reddy, it would be detrimental to the separate statehood cause,” Prof Kodandaram opined.