Guntur, October 18: The proposed Hyderabad March being planned by the Telangana Political JAC and other groups in the first week of November is already reverberating in the other two regions.
Even as the Telangana groups are still giving final touches to what they called a massive siege of Hyderabad in support of their separate state demand, political leaders in the Seemandhra region are apprehending that the march is actually intended to target them.
peaking at a meeting of the Samaikhyandhra JAC in Guntur on Monday, former TDP minister Kodela Sivaprasada Rao said it was clear that the Hyderabad March is aimed at targeting the businessesof the people from these two regions in Hyderabad.
“Last time around, when they held the Million March on Tank Bund road, statues of many Telugu icons were vandalized. This time, it looks like the business interests of the Seemandhra people will end up as the victims,” he said. However, sources in the Telangana Political JAC said the Hyderabad March is intended to only display a massive show of strength of the Telangana people and not aimed at the people or the businesses of the other two regions. They claimed that their Million March was thwarted with a huge police deployment and that they wanted to lay siege to Hyderabad this time around so that it becomes clear to New Delhi that the people of the region will not settle for anything less than a separate state.
However, the state government and the police are apprehensive that a massive assembly of people, especially on such an emotive issue, can lead to breakdown of law and order and result in large scale violence. “Within minutes of being released on bail after his arrest in connection with the rail roko in Medak, TRS leader T Harish Rao said that their next target is to lay siege to the residences of ministers and Congress MLAs and force them to resign. We are fearful that the T movement can become increasingly violent and out of control,” a police official said.
In the meantime, the Telangana Bandh observed throughout the region in protest against the arrest of MPs and MLAs who took part in the rail roko on Monday was peaceful and total in the districts and partial in Hyderabad.
Although Monday was the 35th day of the Sakala Janula Samme (people’s strike), APSRTC employees and teachers calling off their participation has diluted it to a certain extent and the state is hopeful of a return to more normalcy on Tuesday when educational institutions are expected to resume functioning .
With the power situation limping back to normalcy, and the Singareni Collieries employees likely to call off their agitation after agreeing to a Rs 21,000 Diwali bonus on Monday, there are more chances of the region slowly limping back to life in the coming days.
Courtesy: TOI