Hyderabad, September 16: Once again, the line between the Congress leaders of Telangana and Seemandhra was very clear. They expressed different opinions on one issue.
While the Telangana leaders extended their wholehearted support to the ongoing agitation of the Lawyers of Telangana demanding 42 percent share in the High Court appointments, their Seemandhra counterparts argued opposite.
Speaking to the media here on Thursday, the former minister and Telangana Congress senior leader, Mr T Jeevan Reddy, said that it was surprising that the lawyers belonging to Telangana had to agitate for their rights in the High Court which was in the heart of the Telangana region.
Demanding 42 percent share in the total number of jobs in the High Court, Mr Jeevan Reddy said that the government has to fill the vacant posts with the Telangana lawyers in the High Court as per the Advocate General’s assurance to fulfill the demand. He also faulted the ministers for contending that Telangana lawyers were getting more than their due without verifying the facts.
Meanwhile, the Government Whip, Mr S Shailajanath, along with another Whip, Mr Kondru Murali, said that there was no mistake in demanding by the Telangana Lawyers as per the country’s Constitution. He observed that the Lawyers’ issue should be solved through discussions by all the concerned belonging to the three regions of the State. He also said that the MLAs & MLCs Forum, which was demanding Samaikyandra, would meet on Friday in the Assembly Hall to discuss the Samaikyandra issue as December, the deadline for the Srikrishna Committee to submit its report on Telangana, was nearing.
Earlier, Mr Sukhender Reddy, extending full support to the agitating Telangana Lawyers, said that Ms Geetha Reddy might be speaking in favour of Seemandhra region because she married Mr Ramachandra Reddy, who hails from Kurnool. She was speaking to the tunes of the mother-in-law’s region, he added.
Condemning the statement of the Rayalaseema senior leader, Mr J C Diwakara Reddy, on the demand for separate PCC for Telangana region, Mr Sukhender Reddy said that the Telangana leaders will have no objection even if Mr Diwakara Reddy demands separate PCC for his village. Mr JC was making sarcastic statements with the money and muscle power, he added. He contended that demanding separate PCC for Telangana meant a step towards achieving separate State. He said that it was not proper for the Seemandhra leaders to make such provocative statements against the Telangana movement. He also asked where were these leaders when the Congress returned to power by joining hands with the Telangana Rashtra Samithi and where these leaders when the AICC president, Ms Sonia Gandhi, created TRCCC by meeting 41 MLAs of the Telangana region.
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