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TRS receives complete support of shutdown by Telangana

Received good response over the two days call of shut down by the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS), Normal life in Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh has been paralysed Monday for the second successive day. The party is demanding a separate state of Telangana.

Hyderabad and nine other districts of the region continued to be tense as TRS chief K. Chandrasekhara Rao’s fast-unto-death entered the ninth day.

For the second day, buses of state-owned Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) remained off the roads while road blockades by the protestors affected vehicular movement on the highways.

All educational institutions, shops, business establishments, cinema theatres and petrol bunks remained closed in Hyderabad and other parts of Telangana, causing severe inconvenience to the public.

Tension prevailed on the campus of Osmania University here Monday morning as armed policemen and personnel of Rapid Action Force (RAF) were mobilised in huge numbers to prevent students from taking out a rally to the state assembly.

Police entered the Arts College on the campus and the university hostel to evict students, who planned to lay siege to the assembly to demand that it pass a resolution on a separate Telangana state.

The Joint Action Committee (JAC) of students and teachers of Osmania University has protested the police action and demanded that the government withdraw all forces from the campus. The JAC leaders have warned the government of serious consequences otherwise.

Suicide by five Telangana sympathizers, sporadic incidents of violence, widespread protests across the region and road blockades marked the shutdown on the first day Sunday.

Meanwhile, KCR, as the TRS chief is popularly known, continued his fast-unto-death at the Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) here demanding separate statehood to the Telangana region.

Doctors at NIMS said KCR, who was in judicial custody, was running high temperature and had turned very weak as he has not been taking food for the past nine days.

Chief Minister K. Rosaiah personally went to NIMS Sunday night to persuade KCR to end the fast but the latter made it clear that he would not call off the fast unless a decision was taken on carving out a separate Telangana state.

Rosaiah, who was accompanied by Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) president Ajit Singh and health minister D. Nagender, told KCR that the centralgovernment was seized of the Telangana issue but the TRS chief demanded that at least the state assembly pass a resolution.

KCR was arrested Nov 29 by the police near Karimnagar town when he was heading to Siddipet town in Medak district for launching a fast unto death. He was taken to Khammam town, where a court sent him to jail for 14 days.

TRS bandh cripples coastal Andhra Pradesh | big loss for andhra pradesh government due to bandh

Telangana Rashtra Samithi’s (TRS) 48-hour bandh has incurred a huge loss to the coastal areas of East Godavari, West Godvari and Viskhapatnam.

While transport organisations, farmers, business establishments incur losses, passengers faced troubles due to cancellation of bus services by both State and private bus operators towards Hyderabad and Telangana areas.

A spokesman of the Andhra Pradesh Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) told PTI that over 99 per cent buses were cancelled from this region and buses leaving from Visakhapatnam [ Images ], Rajahmundry, Amalapuram, Ramachandrapuram, Kakinada to Hyderabad and other Telangana areas were cancelled and passengers faced problems.

Even ticket reservations to Hyderabad were cancelled due to the bandh. APSRTC runs over 100 buses daily from Visakhapatam, Rajahmundry, Kakinada and other coastal areas to Hyderabad.

The South Central Railway (SCR) trains from the coastal Andhra left with least passengers as most of the passengers cancelled their reservation, a spokesman of SCR said.

Rosaiah’s appeal

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K Rosaiah called on fasting Telangana Rashtra Samiti president K Chandrasekhara Rao at the NIMS in Hyderabad late Sunday night and appealed him to end his fast.

However, the former union minister who has been on a fast for the past seven days refused to heed and said he would continue his fast till a favourable decision on Telangana was announced.

The chief minister was accompanied by former union minister Ajit Singh and state Health Minister Danam Nagender.

The Telangana movement has a history of 50 yrs and will continue till a separate state is formed. The main reasons for Telanga are (a) Ill treatment of Telangana people by Andhra people in the Telangana region (b) Illegal taking away of government jobs by Andhra people (c) Insulting Telangana culture and language by various means

It is because of the insulting treatment of Telangana people by the Andhra people, I am confident that, Telangana is going to be formed one day or the other.

The Andhra region people should understand that, the sooner the formation of the Telangana state, the better is for the people of both the regions.

Jai Telangana

If ap is to be divided, it may have to be made into 5 states. Namely, hyderabad, telangana, uttara andhra, andhra, rayalseema. this is what it is seen for now. later on, the number may increase. can anyone give assurance that there wont be any more such demands in future in these 5 states or for that matter whole country.

If separated, it will be a bad precedent. tomorrow someone will ask centre to declare their state as a separate country. Is it possible.

Best solution is educate people, gain their support and get their problems solved by demanding them from state govt or centre.

Poor TRS failed in this department several times and to cover for their past mistakes of not agitating on peoples issues, they provoked students and want to get their demand of separate state met. Irt is foolishness.