Massive campaign for Telangana : Gaddar

Massive campaign for Telangana : Gaddar

HYDERABAD : Popular ballad singer Gadar said in Khammam on Thursday that a massive campaign was launched to mobilise support for separate statehood for the Telangana region. The campaign was aimed at involving all the forces for achieving Telangana.
As part of the campaign, Telangana Aikya Karyacharana Committee and the Telangana Samskritika Samakhya would organise a rally – Maha Pradarshana – at Nizam College grounds in Hyderabad on February 4. Some 10,000 artistes from different fields would take part and perform at the rally.
People supporting the demand were also expected to take part in the rally. Leaders of the Telangana Aikya Karyacharana Committee and the Telangana Samskritika Samakhya would reach Delhi with the demand on February 19 or 20.
He said that Telangana could be achieved only by fighting the forces that were against the demand and those who thrived so long by exploiting the region and its people. The struggle for separate Telangana would be intensified by targeting political parties which were out to thwart the process for creation of the new state.
He questioned the rationale behind downsizing the workforce in the Singareni Collieries. The total number of coal workers in the company had come down from 1.3 lakhs to some 60,000. It would be reduced further in the days to come. He pointed out that open cast mining had cost hundreds of villages displacing the poor.
He also opposed the Polavaram project which would be displacing hundreds of villagers in Khammam district.