Mixed emotions after Telangana’s birth
31 July 2013 11:42 PM GMT
Students, employees and other supporters of united Andhra Pradesh continued protests in the Rayalaseema and coastal Andhra regions. Meanwhile, celebrations broke out in different parts of Telangana on Tuesday night soon after the Congress announced its decision to give separate statehood to the region.
Osmania University, the nerve centre of the Telangana agitation, burst into celebrations as students greeted each other, burst crackers and distributed sweets. Activists of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) burst crackers and raised slogans at Telangana Bhavan, the party headquarters in Hyderabad.
However, TRS leaders were cautious in their reaction. TRS legislator K. Taraka Rama Rao said the real celebrations would take place only when the Telangana bill is passed in parliament.
There were also celebrations by Congress activists in Telangana. Raising slogans of ‘Jai Telangana’, they exploded crackers and distributed sweets in Hyderabad and in nine other districts of the region.
However, the students’ Joint Action Committee (JAC), which organised a protest in the port town of Visakhapatnam, demanded that the legislators from the regions resign from their posts to mount pressure on the Centre.
The protesters held a rally in Eluru, the Lok Sabha constituency of union minister K S Rao, in support of the united Andhra cause.
In Kurnool, lawyers boycotted courts and held a demonstration. Kurnool is represented in Lok Sabha by union minister of state for railways, K Jayasuryaprakash Reddy.
However, students from various educational institutions took out a rally in Vijayawada to protest the proposed bifurcation of the state.
Over 3,000 students including girls from various colleges, under Joint Action Committee banner, led by its convener and youth leader Devineni Avinash staged a ‘rasta roko’ near the Indira Gandhi municipal stadium in the city for over half-an-hour.
The students’ JAC asked the Union government not to concede the demand of bifurcating the state made by some political leaders for their ‘selfish motive’ at the cost of crores of Telugu people, Avinash said.
They demanded that the people’s representatives from all political parties should resign from their posts as token protest against the proposed bifurcation.
Osmania University, the nerve centre of the Telangana agitation, burst into celebrations as students greeted each other, burst crackers and distributed sweets. Activists of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) burst crackers and raised slogans at Telangana Bhavan, the party headquarters in Hyderabad.
However, TRS leaders were cautious in their reaction. TRS legislator K. Taraka Rama Rao said the real celebrations would take place only when the Telangana bill is passed in parliament.
There were also celebrations by Congress activists in Telangana. Raising slogans of ‘Jai Telangana’, they exploded crackers and distributed sweets in Hyderabad and in nine other districts of the region.
However, the students’ Joint Action Committee (JAC), which organised a protest in the port town of Visakhapatnam, demanded that the legislators from the regions resign from their posts to mount pressure on the Centre.
The protesters held a rally in Eluru, the Lok Sabha constituency of union minister K S Rao, in support of the united Andhra cause.
In Kurnool, lawyers boycotted courts and held a demonstration. Kurnool is represented in Lok Sabha by union minister of state for railways, K Jayasuryaprakash Reddy.
However, students from various educational institutions took out a rally in Vijayawada to protest the proposed bifurcation of the state.
Over 3,000 students including girls from various colleges, under Joint Action Committee banner, led by its convener and youth leader Devineni Avinash staged a ‘rasta roko’ near the Indira Gandhi municipal stadium in the city for over half-an-hour.
The students’ JAC asked the Union government not to concede the demand of bifurcating the state made by some political leaders for their ‘selfish motive’ at the cost of crores of Telugu people, Avinash said.
They demanded that the people’s representatives from all political parties should resign from their posts as token protest against the proposed bifurcation.
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