Hyderabad, October 29: Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) president K Chandrasekhar Rao today threatened to launch a fast-unto-death if separate Telangana statehood demand is not conceded by next month.
“I am demanding, declare Telangana in November.
Otherwise, I am going to sit on a fast-unto-death. This is a warning. The consequences will have to be borne by the government of India and government of Andhra Pradesh,” he told reporters here.
Rao was speaking after being detained during a ‘jail bharo’ agitation organised by TRS demanding that the government make a constitutional amendment to protect the interests of Telangana in the wake of Supreme Court verdict declaring Hyderabad as a ‘free zone’ for police recruitment.
The police department has been divided into various zones for the purpose of recruitment. ‘Free zone’ means people from all parts of the state can be recruited in Hyderabad.
-PTI