తెలంగాణా JAC calls for `cook-on-road' agitation...
HYDERABAD: Aimed at disrupting vehicular traffic, the TRS on Friday called for a `cook-on-the-road' agitation in support of Telangana on the roads of Hyderabad city between 9 am and 2 pm on June 19.
TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao, KCR, his family members, the party politburo and all state committee members will participate in the agitation where Telangana supporters along with their family members residing in Hyderabad will cook food and eat on the roads. During the five hour dharna, all roads will be blocked and vehicular traffic not allowed, TRS sources said.
TRSLP Floor leader E Rajender told newsmen that KCR will participate in the programme at NTR Basavatarakam Cancer Institute where community dining is being organised. He said the state committee members and MLAs have been appointed as division incharges in all 150 divisions in the city and in Secunderabad Cantonment area and that they will take up door-to-door campaign urging the people to join the agitation in favour of Telangana from June 13.
In the state executive, it was also finalised to lay siege to Hyderabad city by the end of June or July first week as part of their agitation seeking the introduction of the Telangana bill in Parliament in the ensuing monsoon session, Rajender said.
As part of the third phase T movement, the TRS leader said a meeting is also being organised at Jagadgirigutta in the city on June 13 to mobilise the support of students and other organisations fighting for the cause of Telangana. Rajender said two other important dharnas - blockade of national highways stalling vehicular traffic between Telangana and other regions and rail roko obstructing trains passing between South and North India will also be organised. After holding meeting with JAC, dates will be finalised for the two agitations.
Rajender said the state executive also ratified another resolution in support of deadline set by JAC that the Telangana MPs and MLAs of Congress and TDP should quit their posts by June 25. JAC in its steering committee meeting held on Thursday asked all the MLAs and MPS quit their posts or face social boycott from June 26.
When asked about the elevation of higher education minister D Rajanarasimha as deputy chief minister, the TRS leader said: "it is because of the Telangana struggle launched by KCR that the Congress leaders from the region are getting plum posts in the state cabinet. They will not have political future if they neglect the aspirations of Telangana people in the next election," he said.