Stung TRS plans massive Telangana-stir
By 24X7Cineworld - Tuesday 30 October 2012
"Going by the developments in Delhi, it seems we can no longer believe in the Congress and its promise made on Telangana. We are looking at launching a large-scale agitation in November," TRS MLA T Harish Rao told TOI on Tuesday.
The TRS had initially wanted to launch the agitation in September and had also planned for convening a meeting with the party leaders including politburo members, state committee members, MLAs and MPs in the last week of August to chart out the protest plan. However, with the party supremo K Chandrasekhar Rao claiming to be getting positive signals from Delhi on Telangana, the meeting and the agitation were called off. But the Telangana Political Joint Action Committee (T-JAC) went ahead and independently organised 'Chalo Hyderabad' march on Necklace Road on September 30.
KCR camped in Delhi between September 5 and October 3 and claimed to have held talks with the Congress leaders. The TRS chief, who issued a deadline of August 20 to the Centre to make an announcement on Telangana, extended the deadline to September-end, claiming the talks were still progressing. He later extended the deadline to October end, saying the government hoped to take decision on Telangana after the Dasara celebrations, following the cabinet reshuffle expected to come into effect by then.
Although the Congress high command is said to have favoured the cabinet reshuffle , the signals that TRS is getting from the national party on Telangana is reportedly not encouraging. After the pro-Telangana activists failed to come out with an effective strategy to obstruct the ongoing state-wide padayatra of TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu, who entered the region on Monday without much resistance, the TRS is desperately in need of a plot to retain its claim on Telangana and re-launching the movement looks inevitable.
"We had already clarified that if the government gives away Telangana we would celebrate or otherwise we would agitate. Our stand is intact. We will wait up to October end, and if nothing positive comes out, we would launch the agitation. There is no question of keeping quiet," said B Vinod Kumar, a former MP and politburo member of TRS.
While the TJAC has planned protests across the region on the state formation day on November 1, participation of TRS in the protests could just be symbolic.
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