Hyderabad, December 28: THE State unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has decided to intensify both the Jai Telangana and Jai Andhra movements to “expose” the Congress and main Opposition Telugu Desam Party’s (TDP) double standards on the bifurcation of the State.
The State unit of the party will formally launch its Jai Andhra movement from Vijayawada tomorrow under the leadership of vicepresident K Haribabu.
It has also decided to provide free legal aid to all activists in the two regions taking part in the movements.
The party has established a control room under the chairmanship of senior advocate Anthony Reddy at the State party headquarters.
The State panel has also decided to organise public meetings at 24 places in the city on December 29 and a “Torch Rally” in the city on January 1. A string of awareness programmes have also been lined up.
Addressing a press conference, State president B Dattatreaya demanded that the Central Government introduce a bill in Parliament to begin the process of the formation of Telangana State in accordance with Article 3 of the Indian Constitution.
Saying that the Congress and Telugu Desam were insincere on Telangana, he demanded that TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu tender an unconditional to the people of Telangana. He also urged Union Minister S Jaipal Reddy to quit the Cabinet and join the movement.
The BJP leader also strongly criticised the police for registering false cases against students in the region.
He said the police had registered non-bailable cases against about 900 advocates and urged Chief Minister K Rosaiah to direct the department to withdraw the same.
BJP general secretaries K Laxman and Ch Sambamurthy took part in the press conference.
——-Agencies