ASSURED TO LEAD A PEACEFUL AGITATION

The joint action committee consisting of all political parties appears to be heading for a clash with the government . The JAC representatives led by Prof Kodandaram met chief minister K Rosaiah late on Monday night and demanded that the government withdraw its decision to close the hostels.  If it (the state government) fails to do so by Tuesday, the JAC will open its own mess to provide food to the hostliers we told the chief minister, R Damodar Reddy (Congress) told media after the meeting. He said, chief minister Rosaiah told them that the government would review the issue on Tuesday and announce its decision.

He said the JAC assured the chief minister that they would take the responsibility of the students and see that they continue Telangana agitation in a peaceful manner. The JAC said, if necessary, the legislators will go to all the universities in the region and would personally monitor and ensure that anti-social elements to not get infiltrated into the student groups. We are even prepared to sleep in the hostels to prevent any antisocial elements joining the students groups, he said.

The JAC also told the chief minister that while they intend to organise a peaceful bandh on Wednesday, they propose to resort to rail and bus roko and will prevent even long distance trains going to New Delhi or Chennai on the day of bandh. The JAC, he said, urged the chief minister to relax the rules and grant permission to Osmania University students JAC to organise Mahagarjana (public meeting) in the university premises on January 3.

He said all political parties which are supporting Telangana state have decided to extend their support for the Mahagarjana and would be mobilising people from the ten districts in the region. The JAC leaders told the chief minister that Mahagarjana would be a peaceful public meeting and hence the government should accord permission for the same. The meeting is aimed at garnering support for separate Telangana state agitation, they told the chief minister.

The delegation also reeled out the statistics of the number of what they call false cases foisted against the agitating students from Telangana region and advocates in the last one month and urged him to withdraw them. Among those who met the chief minister apart from Prof Kodandaram were Kadiam Srihari , E Dayakar Rao and R Revanth Reddy (TDP), Indrasain Reddy, R Damodar Reddy (Congress ), E Rajender and T Harish Rao (TRS) and BJP MLA G Kishen Reddy.
(SOURCE:TOI)