The JAC from the Andhra region has already called for a bandh on Monday and a rasta roko on Tuesday, when the Centre is scheduled to hold talks with political parties on the Telangana issue in New Delhi. In a display which was well regulated both by the police and the JAC members on the directive of the AP High Court, almost 80,000 students managed to make it to the venue and displayed remarkable restraint. JAC members however claimed that nearly 2 lakh students made it to the OU. The students claimed that hundreds of their brethren were detained en route. On the other side, police officials heaved a sigh of relief that it went off peacefull.
Speakers at the meeting called for Telangana , but the efficiency with which the entire meeting was organised had the police worried . In the first place, the JAC members managed to erect two giant-screen LCDs, one at the meeting premises and another near B hostel . Who would have the resources and the organization to mobilize it at such a short notice wondered a police official. No major political leader was allowed to enter the campus. TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao, from his residence in Jubilee hills, expressed his solidarity with the students , but nobody else reacted, even as several speakers criticized chief minister K Rosaiah and TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu. Leftist ideologue and writer Varavara Rao was not allowed entry into the campus by the police, but the students managed to whisk him in somehow. Varavara Rao ended up as the only major figure apart from the JAC members to address the gathering. Manda Krishna Madiga also addressed the meeting , while former Union minister A Narendra and balladeer Gaddar also reportedly managed to give the slip to the police and make it to the venue, but preferred not to address the gathering. Attendance was thin in the morning , but had peaked by 4 pm.
Top police officials told TOI that they averred that Maoist influence and hold on the Telangana movement seems to be consolidating , given the organization and the wellordered manner in which the entire meeting was conducted. But analysts said that this was a ruse and whenever the cops fail to anticipate anythings, the blame is laid at the door of the Red ultras. Sources said that college and school managements provided buses and other facilities for students to reach the rally venue.
As per the HC order, the meeting ended by 6.30 pm and the LCD TVs shut and all TV channels relaying the event were told to stop telecasting . According to police sources, apart from students from Hyderabad, hundreds from the neighbouring districts of Warangal, Karimnagar , Nizamabad, Nalgonda, Adilabad and Mahbubnagar lent meat to the gathering. A large number of families with children were also able to enter the OU premises. While the main meeting was held at the grounds in front of the Arts college, there were three other venues on the campus that had some meetings on. The OU meeting appears to give an indication that the Telangana protesters are readying themselves for a long-drawn battle. This does not augur well for the state , said an official.
With the Andhra region JAC having called for a bandh and a rasta roko, the Centres decision to initiate the process of creating Telangana is threatening to destroy the ruling Congress. With its first statement on December 9 in favour of Telangana and the second holding it back on December 23, the UPA government has ignited a fire in the state that has the potential to destroy both the Congress and the TDP.
WILL THE ROAR BE HEARD IN DELHI Students assemble at the Arts College campus of the Osmania University for the Vidyarthi Garjana seeking separate Telangana state, in the city on Sunday. The campus turned into a sea of humanity as thousands of students from the 10 Telangana districts converged for the event
(SOURCE : TOI)
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