Hyderabad, March 14: Telangana Political Joint Action Committee (JAC) chairman Prof M Kodandaram today held the State government responsible for the incidents that took place on the Tank Bund during the Million March on March 10.
Speaking to reporters here, he said the government did not consider their request to allow them to hold the march peacefully. The repression of T-agitators resulted in such incidents, he said.
Protesting against the attitude of the government towards the T-agitators during the march, they would organise protests like burning of effigies and rasta roko across the region on March 14, Kodandaram said. Police registered cases even against coastal Andhra people in connection with the march. “The passersby, the advocates walking on the Tank Bund and intermediate students were implicated,” he alleged. On the demolition of the statues on the Tank Bund, Kodandaram said it was out of sheer anger and should not be treated as an attack on culture. “As far as Telangana people are concerned the present Assembly is as good as dead as no Telangana MLA has been attending the session. It has been a Seemandhra Assembly for several days now. We will perform last rites to the present Assembly,” Kodandaram said.
Meanwhile, Nagar Kurnool MLA Nagam Janardhan Reddy lamented that the Assembly had no time to discuss the suicide of 600 Telangana students, but devoted more than six hours to the debate on the demolition of statues. The demolition of the statues was unfortunate, he said and held the chief minister, DGP, city police commissioner and other Andhra officials responsible for what happened on the Tank Bund.
Nagam recalled how John F Kennedy’s quote ‘Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable’ that they had mentioned in the report submitted to the Srikrishna Committee, proved true with the million march.
–Agencies