It was 2014. The Congress led union government announced united AP bifurcation and all political parties gave their letters of consent for the historical decision. Although the state division was made mandatory, AP NGOs leader Paruchuri Ashok Babu provoked the NGOs to resort to indefinite strike.
Since Ashok Babu was supported by Kiran Kumar Reddy's government, TDP and caste biased AP media, the useless strike continued for 70+ days. According to economists AP lost thousands of crores worth man power with the useless strike of AP NGOs.
Wonder what Ashok Babu and others protesters targeted only AP's union ministers but ignored criticizing all other politicians from various parties who held responsible for the state division. Eventually, Ashok Babu and AP NGOs got the strike called off leaving their demand unfulfilled. From then on Ashok Babu and AP intellectuals like Chalasani Srinivas have been being considered as iron legs of agitations.
According to reports Ashok Babu has decided to support TDP government on special category status. Reportedly the employees will stage dharnas in all district headquarters of AP state. But then, analysts felt AP NGOs could have formed a common platform involving all political parties. Whatsoever, given the poor track record of Ashok Babu on agitations, AP people are worrying if they can't achieve SCS with Ashok Babu & co. protests.