Oct.16 (NSS): The senior Congress leader and a staunch Telangana
protagonist Dr. K. Kesava Rao encountered a humiliating and bitter experience from T-
agitators at a rally in Indira Park here on Tuesday.
As a mark of protest against the visit of Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh to
the state capital in connection with the global biodiversity meet, the Telangana Nagara
Samithi organized a dharna at Indira Park. The TJAC, TRS and other organization
extended support to the dharna in which the participants wore black badges.
Dr. Kesava Rao went to Indira Park to express his support to the dharna but to his
utter surprise he was welcomed with slogans of “T traitors go back” from a boisterous
section of separatists at the venue. At one stage the Congress leader even lost his cool atg
the heckling agitatators.
On noticing the commotion, Dr. Nagam Janardhan Reddy, founder Chairman
of Telangana Nagara, invited Dr. Kesava Rao on to the stage and defused the situation
taking a serious turn. Speaking on the occasion Dr. Reddy ridiculed the claim of the
Union Home Minister that creation of smaller states would lead to naxal problems.
Naxalite problem is a nationwide problem and hence to state that ht menace would
escalate if Telangana was carved was absurd, he observed.
Speaking on the occasion the TJAC Chairman Prof. Kodandaram observed that
the very fact that the Prime Minister had to attend the biodiversity meet by traveling
in a helicopter amply mirrored the gravity of the separatists movement. The central
government has become a tool in the hands of the rich and the affluent and hence
adopting the delaying tactics to create a separate Telangana state.
Prof. Kodandaram further stated that the steering committee of the TJAC would
meet in a day or two finalize the future course of action and agitations to mount the
pressure for achieving the Telangana goal. He announced that November 1 would be
observed as “Telangana Betrayal Day”.
The students in Osmania University hoisted black flags in the campus to express
their protest against the visit of the Prime Minister to the city without any declaration on
Telangana state.(NSS).
