Express News Service
First Published : 03 Jan 2010 03:19:00 AM IST
Last Updated : 03 Jan 2010 10:21:40 AM IST
HYDERABAD: Notwithstanding the Centre’s decision on Telangana, various organisations today resolved to continue their agitations till the separate State is realised.
A round-table meeting was held at TNGOs office here today, chaired by its president K Swamy Goud.
The meeting was held to discuss tomorrow’s Vidyarthi Garjana and Jan 5 meeting in Delhi.
In the five-hour-long meeting, as many as 49 speakers, stressed the need for continuing the agitation for Telangana. They said that they could not trust the political parties as they adopted a duel stand and wanted the people to carry forward the agitation. They also demanded that the State should accord permission for tomorrow’s student rally. If the police prevented the meeting of students in OU campus, the people would organise similar meetings at all places, they said Virasam leader P Vara Vara Rao speaking on the occasion said that people’s organisations should exert pressure on the Government for Telangana. ``If we leave the matter to Delhi, Telangana will not be realised,’’ he said. ``Several resolutions were passed in the Legislative bodies and they were later found their way to dustbins. Telangana would not be carved out with mere a resolution and the people should continue their relentless movement till the State is realised,’’ he cautioned.
Exposing the stand of various political parties, Vara Vara Rao faulted the Congress for not announcing its stand so far. The TDP and the Congress may ask each other to spell their stand first on Telangana on Jan 5 meeting.
He felt that the Election Commission should cancel the recognition of PRP, which made a U-turn on Telangana, against its manifesto.
He also advised T-agitators to create awareness among the people of Andhra region that the Tmovement was not against the people of Andhra as such.
Ap p o i n t i n g E S L Narasimhan as Governor, Vara Vara Rao said that the State was under police rule now.
Prof G Haragopal said that the January 5 meeting was a final test for political parties. ``It is now up to the political parties to decide whether they follow the people or distance themselves from the people,’’ he said.
Haragopal said that people themselves are leading the T-agitation. He said that the Telangana Ministers who failed to give permission to the student rallies were unfit to be continued as ministers.
Prof Kodandaram, convenor of JAC of political parties, said that they were making efforts to bring a rapport between the people’s organisations and the political parties.
Balladeer Gaddar, MLC Chukka Ramaiah, Kesavarao Jadav, Uma Devi, Andesri, Virasam Ratnamala, journalists Potturi Venkateswara Rao, Allam Narayana, Dr Gopalakishan, N Venugopal and others spoke.
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