Angry demonstrations, rallies and road blockades returned to Telangana region as the reported move of the Union Government to form Rayala-Telangana State evoked an angry reaction across the region on Wednesday.
With more and more reports suggesting that the Group of Ministers was likely to recommend formation of Rayala-Telangana State comprising 10 districts of Telangana and two districts of Rayalaseema, Telangana Rashtra Samiti called for general strike in the region on Thursday. The State BJP and the CPI, two
other strong votaries of Telangana State have also announced its support for Thursday’s strike.
The normal life was likely to be hit hard in Telangana region as Government employees and doctors have also decided to support it. Telangana Doctors Joint Action Committee has decided to boycott even the emergency services from midnight on Wednesday.
State BJP president G Kishan Reddy demanded the Central Government to explain the need for doing back on the resolution of Congress Working Committee that the Telangana State would comprise 10 districts.
CPI state secretary K Narayana also wanted to know for whose sake the center was bringing forward the proposal of Rayala Telangana when the people of Telangana had never demanded any such thing. “central government was playing with the lives of the people like a football by bringing out new issues and problems and dividing the people on different lines”, he said.
TRS President K Chandrasekhar Rao rejected the idea of Rayala Telangana outright and said that Congress party was back to its old game of betraying the people of Telangana. “We will continue the fight till Sampoorna Telangana was achieved”, KCR said.
Several Congress leaders also joined the issue with the center. Congress MPs from Telangana Ponam Prabhakar and G Sukhinder made it clear that nothing other than Telangana state comprising of ten districts and Hyderabad as its capital was acceptable to them. “All Telangana parties are united on this issue”, he said.
Deputy Chief Minister Damodar Rajanarasimha also wrote a letter to the GOM opposing Rayala Telangana and demanding that the new state should be confine to the geographical boundaries of Telangana region.
Telangana leaders of Telugu Desam M Narasimhlu and E Dayakar Rao also opposed Rayala Telangana and said that they want only Telangana state and nothing else.
Telangana Joint Action Committee and Telangana Praja Front were among several organisations which rejected the idea of Rayala Telangana.
Prof Kodanda Ram who was in New Delhi to mobilize opinion against Rayala Telangana said that the districts of the two regions cannot be merged as they had different cultures.