Hyderabad, January 04: The Telangana Vidyarthi Garjana has warned all political parties of serious consequences if they do not take a pro- Telangana stand at the January 5 meeting convened by the Centre for evolving a mechanism and road map (for formation of separate Telangana state).
The Telangana Students Joint Action Commitee also called a `rail roko’ and national highways blockade on January 5 coinciding with the date of talks to mount pressure on the Centre.
The Vidyarthi Garjana, in which students from 10 districts of the region took part, warned the political parties against not taking into consideration people’s aspirations and not conveying the same at the meeting convened by the Centre.
“No leader of a party which takes anti-Telangana stand in the January 5 discussions will be allowed to enter villages.
They will taste the students’ power,’’ one of the resolutions passed at the Garhana Hsaid. The Garjana also asked political parties to make their stand clear on separate Telangana before they leave for Delhi to attend the January 5 meeting.
By another resolution, the meeting asked the Union home ministry to introduce a Bill in Parliament by invoking Article 3 of the Constitution rather than insisting on the State Assembly resolution to create Telangana satte.
The meeting paid rich tributes to those who had laid down their lives in the Telangana movement and demanded that the government pay an ex gratia of Rs 10 lakh each to the families of those who died. It also demanded immediate withdrawal of all cases registered against students.
The meeting made it clear that the agitation for separate Telangana state was not directed against the poor people from Andhra region who migrated to Telangana in search of livelihood but intended to target capitalists from there.
The Garjana declared that Hyderabad is an integral part of Telangana and termed the Samaikya Andhra agitation as a `movement by capitalists’.
–Agencies