Warangal. December 20: The Telangana Joint Action Committee comprising nearly 30 associations resumed relay hunger strike today at the College Centre in Hanamkonda demanding that a BIll on Telangana be introduced in the Assembly.
The JAC took up relay hunger strike November 29 in protest against consideration of Hyderabad as Free Zone and demanding formation of separate State.
Soon after the Centre had announced that the process of formation separate Telangana would be initiated TRS chief K Chandrashekar Rao withdrew his indefinite fast and the JAC too followed suit. But with the stir for United Andhra going full swing, the JAC resumed relay hunger strike, its chairman K Ravinder Reddy said. The Centre had made the announcement with regard to Telangana State on December 9 but the process has not begun and the agitation for United Andhra has been gaining momentum.
Moreover, there is a publicity that that the stir for separate Telangana has subsidided.
“It is for all these reasons that we have resumed our fast,’’ he said.
The Andhra leaders who are unable to digest the division of State are trying to obstruct the formation of separate State, he alleged and appealed to Chief Minister K Rosaiah to introduce a Bill on Telangana in the Assembly.
The agitation for separate State will be intensified till it is realised, he said and added that a mammoth rally will be taken out with students and employees on December 30. A public meeting will also be held, he said.
JAC district convener Murali Manohar, Human Rights Forum leader Dr Burra Ramulu, Panchayat Raju Employees Ministerial Association president Sadula Prasad, PR Teachers association district president Adapa Rama Rao and others were present. The TDP leaders expressed their solidarity with the JAC hunger strike by visiting the camp.
TDP district unit president Revuri Prakash Reddy, MLAs Errabelli Dayakar Rao, Satyavathi Rathod, Danasaari Anasurya, former minister Kadiyam Srihari and others declared their support to the formation of separate State.
–Agencies