Hyderabad, December 19: The government is likely to face the acid test well before December 31, the deadline for the Srikrishna Committee to submit its report on the separate Telangana issue to the Centre, if intelligence reports are any indication.
According to sources, senior police officials have told the government that some Telangana groups are trying to intensify the agitation well before the December 31 deadline.
Police were especially wary of the student Joint Action Committee (JAC)’s plan to once again take the initiative in stirring the agitation.
Though political parties and other Telangana JACs are planning to launch agitations in a democratic manner after December 31, police suspect the agitations by the students could turn violent. A couple of issues would come handy to the students to launch the agitation, police officials said.
“They want to take advantage of the arrest of OUJAC leaders and raise the tempo before the actual Tagitation starts,” a police official.
The indefinite fast by the nine arrested OUJAC leaders in the Cherlapally prison is likely to stoke the fire in a couple of days across the region and, more particularly, on the OU campus, the intelligence wing reportedly warned the government.
Intelligence sleuths said the Telangana Students JAC (TSJAC) also is preparing ground to launch agitations across the region in the next couple of days. “They also want to raise the issue of the government’s reluctance to lift the cases against the students involved in agitations unconditionally,” sources said.
The student JACs were demanding postponement of examinations to get ready for the agitation. “They are apprehensive that the university authorities might close hostels after the examinations to wean away students from the movement. The student JACs also want to build pressure on the government by disrupting the examinations,” an intelligence official said.
Officials said the TSJAC has been keeping alive issues like postponement of SI examinations and the Group-I exams only to keep up the T movement.
–Agencies