Hyderabad, Januray 15: Breaking his long silence, the Telangana Rashtra Samiti president, Mr K. Chandrasekhar Rao, on Friday outlined his plans for stepping up the agitation for a separate Telangana: a blockade of roads on January 17, mass relay hunger strike on January 21, followed by paralysing the administration in the Telangana region in February.
“The agitation will reach its zenith in February. There will be total non-cooperation in February and the administration in Telangana will come to a standstill.
The Centre has to keep its promise made on December 9 or face the onslaught of the people. I am confident Telangana will be achieved,” Mr Chandrasekhar Rao said.
He said there was no need to “tear shirt and rush to the streets” on the T-issue daily; he was adopting a cautious strategy to avoid the pitfalls of the 1969 agitation and to create an unprecedented impact on the Centre to grant statehood. “I will sit on hunger strike again if needed to achieve the goal,” he said.
Mr Chandrasekhar Rao said that a midterm poll is imminent as 30-odd MLAs had pledged their support to the former Kadapa MP, Mr Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy.
–Agencies