Hyderabad, December 25: Members of the Congress Action Committee for Telangana (CAFT), who include ministers, MPs, MLAs, MLCs and senior party leaders of the region, will meet at the New MLA Quarters here on December 26 at 11 am to discuss their future course of action. The meeting will mainly take up the issues of withdrawal of cases against students and youth in the Telangana and Samaikhyandhra agitations and the plan of action after submission of the Srikrishna committee report on or before December 31.
Senior Congress leader and CAFT member B Kamalakar Rao told reporters on the Assembly premises today that the Seemandhra leaders had ‘failed’ to ask for withdrawal of cases against students and youth involved in the Samaikhyandhra agitation. The leaders were worried about their businesses and selfish gains and are not bothered about the future of their youth and students languishing in jails, he alleged.
The leaders of the Telangana region, on the other hand, had demanded that cases booked against the students and youth of Andhra, Rayalaseema and Telangana be lifted on humanitarian grounds. The government has withdrawn only ‘petty and normal’ cases so far, he remarked.
Objecting to Eluru MP Kavuri Sambasiva Rao’s remarks that the country would be ‘divided into 1000 parts’ if the Centre decided to bifurcate AP, Kalamakar reminded Kavuri that the Telangana issue had been included in the Congress election manifesto. Senior Telangana Congress leader Palvai Goverdhan Reddy said Kavuri’s comments were made out of frustration.
–Agencies