Hyderabad, January 08: Temperature in Hyderabad and rest of the Telangana began rising on Friday, a day after Justice BN Srikrishna Committee report was made public. Students took to the streets even as politicians of all hues in the region came under tremendous pressure to prove their commitment to the Telangana cause.
With the import of the Srikrishna Committee’s recommendations sinking in, the day witnessed protests across the region.
There were rallies and rasta rokos in the Telangana districts, particularly in Warangal and Karimnagar, where the movement is strong.
The Telangana Congress leaders went into a huddle at a high-end club here to take stock of the situation but Telangana lawyers stormed the premises and picked up an argument with them. Later, speaking to media-persons, the advocates warned the Congress leaders to consider “their days as numbered if they tried to cheat the people with misleading announcements.” After the meeting, most of the MPs and ministers except MP Madhu Yashki Goud and Minister (Endowments) Jupalli Krishna Rao, slipped away unnoticed.
The duo said they would wait till the Budget session of Parliament.
“If the government does not introduce a bill before the end of the session, we will resign the next day,” Jupalli said.
The Congress MPs later met Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and requested him to recall paramilitary forces from the Osmania University campus. A TRS delegation led by legislator Eetela Rajender met Home Minister Sabita Indra Reddy with a similar demand.
Not to lag behind, the Telugu Desam’s Telangana leaders organised a dharna at the Raj Bhavan with the same demand.
The Students’ Joint Action Committee, meanwhile, gave a call for protests in front of the houses of Congress MPs and MLAs on Saturday to force them to resign. Their logic being that such a move alone would force the Centre to introduce a T bill in Parliament. The Telangana lawyers submitted a representation to the State Human Rights Commission over the gag order issued to the media. The commission directed the DGP to submit a report to it by Jan 11.
—-Agencies