Hyderabad, August 12: The Telangana Political Joint Action Committee (JAC) Chairman Prof M Kodandaram today said the “Sarva Janula Samme” (general strike) would commence from August 17 as planned earlier.
Talking to mediapersons after a steering committee meeting of the JAC held at the Film Chambers office in Secunderabad here, he said the agitation would be organised in three stages as against two as decided earlier.
The strike would commence with “Maha Dharna” here on August 17, he said and it would be intensified from September 6.
Asserting that the protest was not against any one but only for the cause of Telangana state, the JAC leader called upon the people to participate it strike in a big way.
Mr Kodandrama also said there would be a huge public meeting in Karimnagar on September 5 and from the next day, the employees, teachers and workers union would take part in the strike.
He demanded that the written examination to fill up the posts of sub-inspectors on August 13 and 14 must be postponed and the JAC in this connection would hold discussions with students’organisations and decide the future course of action on the matter.
Telangana NGOS President Swami Goud told reporters that the leaders of the employees had rejected the proposal for holding talks with the cabinet sub-committee today as it stated that the Ministers would speak to them for only 25 minutes.
He charged the Congress government for not having any commitment for carving out the Telangana state and holding talks with the government employees in a congenial atmosphere.